Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)
Any positions that characterize people as bereft of agency, as passive automatons open to manipulation or behavioral management, are usually deemed reductive or irresponsible.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
other: Western capitalism’s a-symbolic vision, which produces monstrous inequalities and pathogenic disorientation, and the vision commonly known as “communism,” which, ever since the time of Marx and his contemporaries, has been proposing the creation of an egalitarian symbolization.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.
GD Dess • Cultural Dopes
Firstly the word “communism” encompasses this idea that the collectivity is capable of integrating all extrapolitical differences.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
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