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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
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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
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.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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
For the applied postmodernists, however, the focus on discourses is primarily concerned with positionality—the idea that one’s position within society, as determined by group identity, dictates how one understands the world and will be understood in it.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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Instead, that sense of alienation is a product of the fact that the internet as it is serves what Sharma has identified as a dominant temporal order: one that locks each person into their own individualized time-scale, making them feel fully responsible for their success or failure to adhere to the particular temporality that is assigned to them.
Lauren Collee • Temporal Belonging
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Rather than living one’s life in as unmediated a fashion as possible, the self-help reader engaged in Robbins’s exercise imagines herself directing herself in a film, a ghostly puppeteer of a marionette that is her imagined self. One conceives of one’s interiority by imagining how it might appear. This double gaze is not altogether new for women, w
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