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libraries are the only institutions to have long-term preservation of important societal information as part of its expected function.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
technique colonized realms of life to which it did not properly belong. The key, then, is to recognize where and when it is appropriate to allow technique (or quantification or optimization) a place and where and when it would be good to circumscribe its scope. In order to do so we must have before us a clear sense of the good we seek.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
We might say, then, that the conditions of pervasive digitization have rendered the full range of human experience a text to be interpreted. Condemned to preform ever more baroque hermeneutical maneuvers we are deprived the satisfactions of a naive experience of reality. Perhaps this accounts for the widely-reported sense of unreality that plagues... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
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Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World)
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For the modern state to exist, it must transform the vernacular and the idiosyncratic into a set of standardized units that can be properly analyzed and understood from a geographic and conceptual distance. Without legibility, the state is blind. But making things legible means reducing their complexity, their nuance, their crooked lines.