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Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellschaft ]. Also, its inhabitants are no longer “obedience-subjects” but “achievement-subjects.” They are entrepreneurs of themselves.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
In this model, whether employed by the right or the left or by some other political agenda that doesn’t fit on that scale, the books of the past may well be useful instruments but they cannot be our teachers. They cannot teach us in part because we are refusing to listen to what they have to say that doesn’t fit into our preexisting categories.
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
It is easy for even the most genuine passion for justice to assume a punitive aspect: we don’t like to see people getting away with bad behavior. We want them to get what they deserve, and not to get what they don’t deserve. This attitude is more than understandable, but it can be hard to see whether it’s compatible with generosity.
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
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