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A dynamical system can in fact be described by a single curve, upon which all the points satisfy the coefficient requirements: this is why dynamical systems are in effect static, so far as Bourdieu's field is concerned; they divorce whatever is to be modelled from time and therefore from change.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
The sick person cannot remember everything of what is repressed in him, perhaps just the essentials, and thus does not acquire a conviction of the correctness of the construction communicated to him. He is rather compelled to repeat what has been repressed as a present experience, instead of remembering it,
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud and Tim Newcomb
Once they’re there, living in the digital map rather than the physical territory, they will insulate themselves from what they don’t like through simple omission. Just as our proprietary GPS maps don’t show us the restaurants that refuse to advertise on the platform, the digital landscape to which they have migrated will be free of poverty, pollution, and whatever else the rest of us have to deal with.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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