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If the most idiotic television game shows are so successful, it’s because they express the corporate situation with great precision.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Human interest stories seem pretty dehumanizing for their subjects, who have one aspect of their life magnified, commodified, and circulated for the amusement of people who otherwise don’t care. If human interest stories weren’t made with humans, we could possibly enjoy them with less guilt. But that assumes that inflicting the trauma of attention on actual people isn’t part of what we enjoy in the first place.
Have You Heard the Word
Rob Horning
Personally I have to exercise a lot of agency in reading, and understanding what I read, and bearing it all in mind for long enough to make sense of the book as I go along. In no sense does it feel like a passive process by which beauty is transmitted to me without my involvement; it feels like an active effort, of which an experience of beauty is the constructed result.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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