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- "the concrete practices of the tech industry now structure identity and individuality in ways that support its own hegemony. While it presents endless avenues for expression, it sees us as wholly reducible to market logic, where we are real to the degree that our consumption habits are rational. This vision of selfhood promotes uniformity and bou... See more
Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life
the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing rig
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SUBJECT CONSUMER CITIZEN DEPENDENT TO RELIGIOUS DUTY OBEY RECEIVE COMMAND PRINT HIERARCHY SUBJECTIVE INDEPENDENT FOR MATERIAL RIGHTS DEMAND CHOOSE SERVE ANALOGUE BUREAUCRACY OBJECTIVE INTERDEPENDENT WITH SPIRITUAL PURPOSE PARTICIPATE CREATE FACILITATE DIGITAL NETWORK DELIBERATIVE
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
SUBJECT CONSUMER CITIZEN DEPENDENT TO RELIGIOUS DUTY OBEY RECEIVE COMMAND PRINT HIERARCHY SUBJECTIVE INDEPENDENT FOR MATERIAL RIGHTS DEMAND CHOOSE SERVE ANALOGUE BUREAUCRACY OBJECTIVE INTERDEPENDENT WITH SPIRITUAL PURPOSE PARTICIPATE CREATE FACILITATE DIGITAL NETWORK DELIBERATIVE
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
The first is the process of imaginative identification as a form of knowledge, the fact that within relations of domination, it is generally the subordinates who are effectively relegated the work of understanding how the social relations in question really work.