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Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while consuming an endless stream of entertainment options that we’ll scarcely remember the name of two weeks in the future.
The Friendship Problem
Rosie Spinks
As a capitalist firm, Google wants to maximize that surplus, expanding in depth—drilling ever deeper into our data souls and households—but also in breadth, by offering new services in new domains and diversifying its “surveillance assets.”
Capitalism’s New Clothes
The Baffler
Capital is posited as the future through the coercive presence of the future in the present, which demands it be realised through the activity of living beings. Whether those beings are furnished by the trappings of a strong welfare state, or any other such variation, before being marched into its jaws is ephemeral to the cult, for it is capital that grants it its purpose for existing; and it is this purpose which austerity and privatization,which converts public institutions into sites of capital extraction, can execute by consigning them to destruction.
Simulation of the Antichrist
splintermag.com
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