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we are witnessing the rise of “scientific” forms of social control by the authorities. The lives of individuals are to be strictly regimented.

Stuart Sim • Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)

In any case, I’d go so far as to argue that the dopamine framing actually subsidizes the social imaginary that reduces the human being to the status of a machine, readily programmable by the manipulation of stimuli, which may itself be the deeper and more malignant problem.

L. M. Sacasas • Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet

What is new is that today, in our secular, individualistic nation, an amorphous illness is seen inevitably as an opportunity to uncover the authentic nature of the self and improve it, a project squarely in line with other obsessions of our neoliberal society.

Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

to the extent that we are identified as a ‘self’, we are merely a performance of the possibilities latent in language.

Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self

the self is no longer a subject but a project . The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé. Knowingly or otherwise, we risk being constantly governed by the question How is what I’m doing rig

Alec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play

In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for thi... See more

Emily Jackson • Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]

what’s dystopian always involves surveillance and monetization, what’s utopian is unmonetized and unsurveilled.

Gordon Glasgow • 12 Questions for Jia Tolentino

Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a c