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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 c
... See morenarrated both a deeply individual response and an ethical philosophy orientated to a larger social world.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Neurodiversity
Irena MS • 4 cards
All social taxonomies are prone to these forces of consolidation and dissolution, assembly and disassembly, because, unlike biological taxonomies, they’re all temporary and contingent—and are often created by opposition. Those who are subject to the same forces, the same powers-that-be, can find themselves grouped together, sometimes to their own s
... See moreAlan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and • 122 cards
“The bus within us” is a methodology created to support us in identifying and interrupting the nongenerative manifestation of the modern desire for a unified, coherent, and self-transparent self.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Each human being is multidimensional and contradictory, with what Avery Gordon describes as a “complex personhood”:
AnaLouise Keating • Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
It is the task of the present work to reunite these divergent discourses, demonstrating that Kierkegaard and Marx are simply two sides of the same coin.