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At every stage, these different but interconnected networks have told us the same thing: we are thoroughly and inextricably entangled with one another.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Human interest stories seem pretty dehumanizing for their subjects, who have one aspect of their life magnified, commodified, and circulated for the amusement of people who otherwise don’t care. If human interest stories weren’t made with humans, we could possibly enjoy them with less guilt. But that assumes that inflicting the trauma of attention on actual people isn’t part of what we enjoy in the first place.
Have You Heard the Word
Rob Horning
As Franco Berardi puts it, `Capital no longer recruits people, but buys packets of time, separated from their interchangeable and occasional bearers’.10 Such `packets of time’ are not conceived of as having a connection to a person with rights or demands: they are simply either available or unavailable.
“The Privatisation of Stress”, by Mark Fisher from Soundings magazine
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