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Pasquinelli combines such historical excavation with a theoretical perspective derived from the Italian *operaismo* movement that emphasizes the agency of workers in their efforts to resist capitalist exploitation.
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
On the one hand, this is a culture that privileges only the present and the immediate – the extirpation of the long term extends backwards as well as forwards in time (for example, media stories monopolize attention for a week or so then are instantly forgotten); on the other hand, it is a culture that is excessively nostalgic, given over to retrospection, incapable of generating any authentic novelty.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
In the paper, Boden and Epstein described how a government that tries to base its policy on evidence can actually end up producing corrupted data because it "seeks to capture and control the knowledge producing processes to the point where this type of 'research' might best be described as '[policy-based evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-based_evidence_making)'."
Campbell's law
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