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Farago insists that he doesn’t mean to “rant” about how culture was better in the past but instead wants to ask “why cultural production no longer progresses in time as it once did.” In other words, why are there no master narratives? What happened to a recognizable zeitgeist, and to a sense of progress, to teleology? These are basically the concerns raised in the 1980s by the “postmodern turn,” and Farago dutifully mentions Jameson and Virilio as heralds of postmodernism’s emergence (Lyotard didn’t make the cut for some reason).
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The industrial mind is an organizational mind, and I think this mind is deeply disturbed and threatened by the existence of people who have no boss.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
If capitalism is a system which requires a ready supply of people to be dehumanized and exploited, then colonialism is the other side of this coin: that socially organized labor and force which dehumanizes and kills people for material benefit and control. And it is important to understand: colonialism is primary to capitalism - capitalism would never have been possible if not for the (continuous) primitive accumulation of colonial violence.
The Joy of Putting the Gun Down
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