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Conversely, what was once eminently possible is now deemed unrealistic. ‘Modernization’, Badiou bitterly observes, ‘is the name for a strict and servile definition of the possible. These ‘reforms’ invariably aim at making impossible what used to be practicable (for the largest number), and making profitable (for the dominant oligarchy) what did not used to be so’.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
It seems that the bees, like the slime moulds and mycorrhizal networks, are already doing the kind of work that we struggle to accomplish with our own technologies. We have much to learn from them.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
So I identify with the figures that Kornbluh tends to portray as victims of the “too lateness” of the capitalist order, those people who missed out or were shut out of nonprecarious positions, who “drown in the extremity of bad affects,” who console themselves with the cruel optimism of immediacy and find themselves retreating from the symbolic order. It often feels like it is too late for me to write my way back into it, but I will keep posting these newsletters anyway.
Infinite Concretude
Rob Horning
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