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Conversely, what was once eminently possible is now deemed unrealistic. ‘Modernization’, Badiou bitterly observes, ‘is the name for a strict and servile definition of the possible. These ‘reforms’ invariably aim at making impossible what used to be practicable (for the largest number), and making profitable (for the dominant oligarchy) what did not used to be so’.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Metastasizing across each of life’s dimensions as a thick mesh of platforms, programs, and protocols, the reticular society is both *an accumulation of networks* as well as *an accumulation of a networked relation between lives*, proceeding as a form of circulation which everywhere furthers life’s separation.
The Pixelation of the Society of the Spectacle
Ian Alan Paul
The crisis has shifted away from being confined to the space of the body under the medical gaze, now the doctor must be practitioner, judge, and social manager. This lingers today in the DSM-V’s definition of abnormality: “maladaptive behavior, personal distress, statistical rarity, and violation of social norms.” As Julian Heron notes, “the threat presented by discordant bodies organizes the very fiction of a unified society.”
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
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