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The word, admittedly,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
It is attained not by the making of similar individuals, as theories of mass society used to assert, but through the reduction or elimination of differences, by narrowing the range of behaviors that can function effectively or successfully in most contemporary institutional contexts.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
‘proscenium arch’
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
two opposites are assimilated and a conflict is stilled.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The ‘forest’, then, is an explosion of opposition:
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The screen is a blunt instrument.