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Too Late for ‘Late Capitalism’
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
from The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA by noemamag.com
- It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a dystopian... See morefrom Unframing the Future by Thomas Klaffke
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- My central contention is that late capitalism not only accelerates the flow of capital, but also accelerates the rate at which subjects assume identities. Identity formation is inextricably linked to the urge to consume, and therefore the acceleration of capitalism necessitates an increase in the rate at which individuals assume and shed identities... See more
from Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Jonah Peretti
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