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All of these forms of policing are built upon what Rancière describes as an *aesthetics* that rests at the foundation of social life, a *sensible distribution* that establishes and enforces who belongs where and for what purpose.[2](https://illwill.com/anaesthetic-violence#fn2)

Anaesthetic Violence

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Moreover, it is easy to see that such manipulation is often financially beneficial to tech-companies, where personalisation, recommendations, and advertisements are intermingled with our own stored memories and narratives, leading to a blurring between distributing cognitive states that are important for who we are and changing who we take ourselves to be.

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The other side of this was mass surveillance of workers in factories and partnerships between the Life Extension Institute and Ford Motor Company—maybe no surprise there given Henry Ford’s general politics. A lot of it was about looking at different races and ethnicities of workers, and women workers versus men, and factors like disability and age. And trying to predict when workers would wear out while also trying to understand the conditions under which workers would be the most productive and most effective without killing them.

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