Sublime

The end of the previous century marked the beginning of a radical new take on identity. People became responsible for perfecting themselves, for engineering their own success.

Procesy związane z samorozwojem przebiegają według podobnego schematu.

Jesteśmy lustrami, w których odbija się to, kim zdaniem innych

powinniśmy być i co robić. Wszystkie te nawyki, programy i systemy, w

które wyposaża nas niezwykle szczodrobliwie tak zwane społeczeństwo,

uniemożliwiają nam osiąganie pełni potencjału. To brud, który powinniśmy

usuwać, a

You are living at a time of crisis in societies that is shaking off and destroying the last vestiges of tradition. And we don’t really know what the positive side of this destruction or negation is. We know that it unquestionably leads to a kind of freedom. But that freedom is above all the absence of certain taboos. It is a negative, consumerist f

In this description, there are shades of how Manuel Castells explained the space of flows draining meaning away from the space of places, as more of life and culture took place between…

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Chapter 1A More Perfect Liquefaction

Des centaines de structures subsistent qui devaient disparaître. Des agents s’occupent de tâches inutiles. La règle envahit tout, parce qu’il est plus commode d’écrire une loi ou un décret que d’indiquer une direction. Les fonctionnaires y trouvent une raison d’être et les politiques une occasion de justifier leurs privilèges. Le statut pris en lui

Now we are transitioning into the third age of computation. Pages and browsers are far less important. Today the prime units are flows and streams. We constantly monitor Twitter streams and the flows of posts on our Facebook wall. We stream photos, movies, and music. News banners stream across the bottom of TVs. We subscribe to YouTube streams, cal