Human capital enabled
- (science/research) work de-contextualized - "unauthored"
- (science/research) work as collective work
- collective work based upon consent
- collectve work for the common good ,
- the good is/as therapeutic - calcuable probablilities to alleviate disease
- hope production - "political economy of hope" (Rose and Novas, 2005)
- hope-enabling work requires renumeration (via patents)
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Human capital disabled
- ethics, politics, economics contextualized, "authored"
- individual/singularity foregrounded
- non agreement with such work is based on public ignorance
- work for vested interests, the "not-so-many"
- interests are political, economic, ideological (often faith-based),
- surplus value production
- surplus production often deemed unnecessary, unethical
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