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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)
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
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Emily Jackson • Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]
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
... See moreAny positions that characterize people as bereft of agency, as passive automatons open to manipulation or behavioral management, are usually deemed reductive or irresponsible.