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Management gurus are always trying to come up with some new bullshit;
Q&A: How DARPA Hacked a Science Writer’s Brain and Turned Her Into a Sharpshooter
Sara Goudarzi
The generic naming of space is in fact one of the running jokes in the film – a country gas station is simply called Country Gas Station, a motel is called Motel. This is part of the flat affect, the strange tonelessness, which governs most of the film. On the DVD commentary, Cronenberg says that he made the actors wear unpatterned clothes, because patterns would consume more computer memory.
“You Won’t Be Able to Stop Yourself, You Might as Well Enjoy It”: eXistenZ and Noncognitive Labour
markfisherreblog
The body of the patient testifies to the social body, either to condemn it to danger or to be isomorphic with its productive processes and its policing (after all, this is what the docile body is).
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
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