Psychopolitics

Immanence: the philosophical and theological concept that a divine presence or essential quality is inherently within and throughout the universe, rather than existing outside it.

As such, profanation represents a practice of freedom that liberates us from transcendence – from any and every form of subjectivation. In this manner, profanation opens a playful margin of immanence

Profanation, then, means adopting an attitude of conscious negligence with regard to this same watchfulness.

the world lies in rubble; in the ruins, we are playing too – tearing apart paper money.

The course our future takes will depend on whether we prove able, beyond the world of production, to make use of the useless.

Games exhibit a specific temporality marked by immediate experiences of success and reward. But what matures over time cannot be gamified. Whatever is long, anything that lasts a long time, proves incompatible with the game’s temporality.

Both the smartphone and the rosary serve the purpose of self-monitoring and control. Power operates more effectively when it delegates surveillance to discrete individuals. Like is the digital Amen. When we click Like, we are bowing down to the order of domination. The smartphone is not just an effective surveillance apparatus; it is also a mobile

Devotion and related words mean ‘submission’, or ‘obedience’. Smartphones represent digital devotion – indeed, they are the devotional objects of the Digital, period.

The call for transparency presupposes occupying the position of a shocked spectator. It is not voiced by engaged citizens so much as by passive onlookers. Participation now amounts to grievance and complaint. With that, the society of transparency, inhabited by onlookers and consumers, has given rise to a spectator democracy.