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In feudal or archaic caste societies, in cruel societies, signs are limited in number and their circulation is restricted. Each retains its full value as a prohibition, and each carries with it a reciprocal obligation between castes, clans or persons, so signs are not arbitrary.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
The situation of the family in post-Fordist capitalism is contradictory, in precisely the way that traditional Marxism expected: capitalism requires the family (as an essential means of reproducing and caring for labor power; as a salve for the psychic wounds inflicted by anarchic social-economic conditions), even as it undermines it (denying parents time with children, putting intolerable stress on couples as they become the exclusive source of affective consolation for each other).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
It was the economist John Maynard Keynes who predicted that we could, through technological advances, all be working a 15-hour week, with more time for leisure and intellectual pursuits that could further humanity. Instead, we have found technological advances have been primarily used to force greater productivity from humans themselves and consolidate wealth, capital and resources into the hands of fewer and fewer individuals.
The Corrosive Effects of Social Media Must Warn Us About the AI Revolution Ahead
Kyle Taylor
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