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Both Marazzi and Sennett point out that the disintegration of stable working patterns was in part driven by the desires of workers – it was they who, quite rightly, did not wish to work in the same factory for forty years. In many ways, the left has never recovered from being wrong-footed by Capital’s mobilization and metabolization of the desire for emancipation from Fordist routine.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The odd thing is that fighting for the right side never feels like a choice. You choose to do the bad things in your life: the good ones come and drag you along with them. It’s just a shame their goodness doesn’t rub off.
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
Calculative and extractive regimes seek value at the surface—and we condone that value regime when we mistake confession and self-expression as tactics against the predations of privatization. The world’s proliferating abasements continually render immediacy more seductive and continually inflate its apparent purchase, obscuring immediacy’s own role in immiseration.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
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