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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
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Any positions that characterize people as bereft of agency, as passive automatons open to manipulation or behavioral management, are usually deemed reductive or irresponsible.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
The forms of control accompanying the rise of neoliberalism in the 1990s were more invasive in their subjective effects and in their devastation of shared and collectively supported relations.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
Tocqueville souligne que l’atomisation sociale est le terreau du despotisme. De la multitude disparate émerge l’appel au tyran. Dans l’éparpillement germe le désir de fusion et de soumission. Nous en sommes là, partout en Occident : nos sociétés de solitude suscitent un tel sentiment d’insécurité que les institutions et les principes de la
... See moreRaphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)
It is attained not by the making of similar individuals, as theories of mass society used to assert, but through the reduction or elimination of differences, by narrowing the range of behaviors that can function effectively or successfully in most contemporary institutional contexts.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,
and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-
ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles
that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt
experience and creative agency of individuals... See more