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Ability is the apparatus that establishes a shift in liberalism’s approach to the body and to the economy. It is the new approach to human capacity that gives rise to a new economic theory of labor – one grounded in new kind of *Homo Oeconomicus*: human capital.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
The task he’d hoped to finish was now looking even more stubbornly intractable than when he’d begun, and if he didn’t get home before eleven he’d have no chance to do anything but fall into bed. He needed to spend an hour with a book, a game, or a TV show, just to lay down a clear memory that separated each day from the next,
Sleep and the Soul
Greg Egan
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign leveraged CA’s harvested data to profile and microtarget users, part of a shockingly sophisticated digital strategy. Trump’s most fervent base was, of course, the American evangelical movement who saw Trump as a critically important actor to help bring about their millenarian end-times theory. When the Trump administration moved the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, it was an enormous validation for those who believe the Rapture is near. Trump was the evangelicals' agent; technology became their medium.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
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