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ART BY NUMBERS #5 – Protect Me From What I Want – Jenny Holzer (1983-84)
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The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need - the principal horror of such a system is that it robs our work of its erotic value, its erotic power and life appeal and fulfilment. Such... See more
Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
(say, a system in which wealth cannot be freely transformed into power, or where some people are not told their needs are unimportant, or that their lives have no intrinsic worth),
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
To avoid abusive power means deciding that the power of these men isn’t something we want,[4] isn’t something that can make our lives better, or more just, or more sustainable. And when I work for them, I am participating, exploiting those further down the ladder.
Cameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
The message of many things in America is “Like this or die.”
— George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context, 1980
Apr Edt • Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?
For ages the rich and their sycophants have written in praise of “honest toil,” have praised the simple life, have professed a religion which teaches that the poor are much more likely to go to heaven than the rich, and in general have tried to make manual workers believe that there is some special nobility about altering the position of matter in ... See more
harpers.org • In Praise of Idleness
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.