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When your fears are predictable, then so are you, which means that you (and your digital demographic) are ripe for manipulation.
Timothy Snyder • On Freedom
At the close of the twentieth century it appeared that the great ideological battles between fascism, communism, and liberalism had resulted in the overwhelming victory of liberalism. Democratic politics, human rights, and free-market capitalism seemed destined to conquer the entire world. But as usual, history took an unexpected turn, and after fa
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
But that was sixteen years ago, at the time I’m writing, and since then freedom has come into the spotlight again. We find ourselves surveilled and managed to an extraordinary degree, farmed for our personal data, fed consumer goods but discouraged from speaking our minds or doing anything too disruptive in the world, and regularly reminded that ra
... See moreSarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
As any number of radical theorists from Brecht through to Foucault and Badiou have maintained, emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.
Marc Fisher • Capitalist Realism
by ideology I mean in the technical sense: a set of ideas promoted by the dominant class, which serves their material interests, and which everybody else has internalised to such an extent that they are willing to go along with a system they might otherwise reject as unjust. The Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci has called this ‘cultural hegemony
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Internet fonctionne avant tout comme anticipation, ciblage et prise en charge de votre désir. Comme la grenouille dans l’eau bouillante, cet accaparement est indolore et imperceptible. On vous décharge de votre vouloir en vous offrant un chemin parfaitement adapté – mais artificialisé. Du sur-mesure gratuit, mais toujours dans l’enceinte du magasin
... See moreEtienne Le Reun • S'Anomaliser: Démissionnez du monde (French Edition)
On voit Berlusconi, dont on fit bêtement un attardé alors qu’il était un précurseur, se métastaser à travers l’Occident, de Trump aux États-Unis à Babiš en République tchèque. On voit les GAFA réfléchir aux villes de demain, inventer les nouveaux espaces publics, qui auront la spécificité vertigineuse d’être privés. Au nom du bien-être de chacun, e
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