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Foucault’s account of the virtual nature of surveillance in Discipline And Punish. Foucault famously observes there that there is no need for the place of surveillance to actually be occupied. The effect of not knowing whether you will be observed or not produces an introjection of the surveillance apparatus. You constantly act as if you are always about to be observed.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
We are concerned with what Girard calls the metaphysical desire: the desire of another’s desire and not the object itself.
René Girard’s Mimetic Theory Changed the Way I Looked at My Own Desires.
Mo Issa
Life for the living often becomes a series of subscription services to vital medications and new forms of indentured servitude in maintenance of cybernetically regulated organs.
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