Sublime

In its most dehumanizing form, this view sees individual people as interchangeable, separate repositories of this usable time stuff: as Marx put it, “nothing more than personified labour-time.”

On ne comprend absolument rien à la civilisation moderne si l’on n’admet pas d’abord qu’elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure. Hélas ! la liberté n’est pourtant qu’en vous, imbéciles

“spectacular domination has succeeded in raising an entire generation molded to its laws.”

This proletariat is being objectively reinforced by the virtual elimination of the peasantry and by the increasing degree to which the “service” sectors and intellectual professions are being subjected to factorylike working conditions.

la société est une vaste conspiration visant à vous détourner des choix importants pour que vous restiez focalisé sur les choix anodins.

The concept of ownership is so deeply embedded in our lives that it’s difficult to imagine how the world would look if that were taken away. Imagine if the clothes you bought could be worn only in the venue you bought them in. What if you couldn’t resell or reinvest in your house or car? Or what if you had to change your name wherever you went? Thi

Society can be destroyed when further growth of mass production renders the milieu hostile, when it extinguishes the free use of the natural abilities of society’s members, when it isolates people from each other and locks them into a man-made shell, when it undermines the texture of community by promoting extreme social polarization and splinterin

The chaos of urban centers “stimulates the nerves to their utmost reactivity,” wrote sociologist Georg Simmel in an influential essay from 1903, “until they can finally produce no reaction at all.” As anyone who’s lived in a city will know, it’s easy to feel overstimulated, and too much of that feeling can render you numb and disconnected from the

Client/server models of any kind of social organization are typically objectionable on the basis of fragility, single points of failure, lack of feedback, and simple unfairness: Who gets to be the server? Who guards the guards? Finance now has an aesthetically minded design that patently doesn’t work, and what’s more, nobody seems to be bothered th