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“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love” (69-70).
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
When art, which was the common language of social inaction, becomes independent art in the modern sense, emerging from its original religious universe and becoming individual production of separate works, it too experiences the movement that dominates the history of the entirety of separate culture. The affirmation of its independence is the... See more
Society of the Spectacle
“We did not evolve to be so much, do so much, or process so much information. And when a person is met with more obligations than they could ever reasonably meet, their typical response is to push themselves even harder at first, feeling lazier and lazier as their to-do list only grows in length, before ultimately collapsing in exhaustion.”
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Identity is contextual and, if we are to live, breathe, and grow, it has to remain contextual. The Internet of the “authentic self” — a loathsome, aberrant idea if there ever was one — is an exercise in slowly getting strangled by your past selves.
Robin Berjon • Retrofuturism
“The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears is good, that which is good appears. The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of
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“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
Society of the Spectacle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
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