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“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
people living in post-Internet society may no longer have an unconscious
— Byung-Chul Han
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Enactment, Politics, and Truth: Pauline Themes in Agamben, Badiou, and Heidegger
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In these conditions of ontological precarity, forgetting becomes an adaptive strategy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
instead of elected officials, permanently subject to control and dismissal, who were to ensure the functioning of government until such time as “every cook would learn how to rule the State”, there is a professional bureaucracy, freed from responsibility,
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
The idea of collectivity resembles Hannah Arendt’s later notion of “thoughtlessness,” the condition she associated with Adolph Eichmann.