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This also pulls into view the affective appeal of such technologies. Phenomenological psychopathology has long stressed how people suffering from psychosis, such as in schizophrenia, experience a loss of *intersubjective* reality. This can give rise to powerful and distressing feelings of inhabiting a different world from others and feeling cut off from other people (Sass & Pienkos 2013; Van Duppen 2017; Salice & Henriksen 2021). Having a conversational partner that offers up the feeling of regaining a shared reality, then, likely is comforting and appealing.
The diagram is a real relation of power, yet equally an abstract machine whose reality is established by power, and configured by the intersection between the histories of both power and the sciences of government which depend on it. Schemata of management do not come into actual operation by their own power, but by the power that actualizes them, a power which itself may be caught in, even addicted to, its own machinations. Such is the case with the dominant machine that cancerously only produces itself: capital.
The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
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