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Counterfeit is not possible in the ceremonial, unless in the form of black magic and sacrilege, which is precisely what makes the mixing of signs punishable as a serious offence against the very order of things.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
And the times when man constricts his stomach and the machine enlarges its output are the very times when the economists preach to us the Malthusian theory, the religion of abstinence and the dogma of work?
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
The fastest cup-stacker on Earth (a young boy) competed with David Eagleman, a neuroscientist, on his show, The Brain, which ran on PBS in America in 2015. They are wired up to brain scanners. The neuroscientist’s brain is working overtime and he loses. The boy’s brain is hardly working at all. It’s as if he is a zombie. He isn’t intending to stack the cups and there isn’t a puppet master inside his head pulling the strings. Something else is happening. His ability to stack the cups is all in his ‘body’.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
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