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“At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people

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From religious spaces to school to television shows to courts of law, we are socialized to seek and perpetuate private, even corporate, love. Your love is for one person, forever. You celebrate it with dying flowers and diamonds. The largest celebration of your life is committing to that person. Your family and friends celebrate you with dishes and

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Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of a "government of things", the book also goes beyond new materialist scholarship which tends to displace political questions by ethical and aesthetic concerns. It puts forward a relational and performative account of materialities that more closely attends to the interplay of epistemological, ontological, and... See more

What is distinctive about Western culture is that we have given so much importance to the problem of the subject in our social, political, economic, legal, philosophical, and scientific traditions . Foucault's most general aim is to "discover the point at which these practices became coherent reflective techniques w ith def inite goals, the point... See more

The point of engaging in political struggles-and Foucault thinks we are engaged in them all the time, hence his disdain for the question about the im portance of politics-is to alter power relations.

For Chomsky, we must struggle against the injustices of our current society in the name of a higher goal-justice. Surely, Chomsky argues, unless we have a guiding principle, we will have no way of judging the actions of others . It is perfectly possible that we may find ourselves in a situation in which a revolution turns out to be worse than the... See more

"It seems to me, " Foucault expounds, "that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working of institutions which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize them in such a manner that the p olitical violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight... See more