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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
This land of animated wishes will expand without limits. It will fill with richer, wilder, more surprising life beyond life. The map will grow as full as the thing it stands for. And still people will be hungry and alone.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
For a crisis to be ‘fascism-inducing’ or ‘fascism-producing’ (Eley, 2016, cited in Malm and The Zetkin Collective, 2021) it has to appear to be beyond the capacity of traditional systems to solve. But this is only one side of the equation; the other is the decision of the dominant social class to invoke fascistic forces as a way to preserve their existing power.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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