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Call the first narrative “Free America.” In the past half century it’s been the most politically powerful of the four. Free America draws on libertarian ideas, which it installs in the high-powered engine of consumer capitalism. The freedom it champions is very different from Alexis de Tocqueville’s art of self-government. It’s personal freedom, without other people—the negative liberty of “Don’t tread on me.”
George Packer
theatlantic.com
The overarching logic of all industry metrics is exactly the same as GDP; the only thing that matters is growth, growth, growth, no matter the collateral damage along the way. Unrestricted scaling is a vision of infinite growth based on identifying previously unrealised forms of enclosure, and also a claim to forms of knowledge that will reach beyond human understanding.
Decomputing as Resistance
Dan McQuillan
That solo approach offered a much-needed counterweight to the scale and intensity of his recent filmmaking, Lanthimos said. “It’s more direct and unfiltered,” he added. “You don’t need that many people. You don’t need that much structure and money. You can do it whenever you want.”
Photography, with its quiet rituals and self-contained process, has offered some meditative calm amid the creative whirlwind of the past few years.
Yorgos Lanthimos Steps Back From the Movie Camera, and Picks Up Another One
nytimes.com
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