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What is loved is the petit objet a, which is not a particular object, but the object as such, the “void presupposed by a demand”. The physical and psychical “presence” of the lover is required only as that which allows the assemblage of affects to be given an apparent cohering centre. But, in the end, the lover is just that: the space, the canvas, on which the collage of memories and associations can be arranged.

K-Punk

Mark Fisher

Partisan divides widen as we lose shared sources of information and ways to communicate across differences — society fragments without a common baseline understanding of truth.

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.

Westenberg

The other side of this was mass surveillance of workers in factories and partnerships between the Life Extension Institute and Ford Motor Company—maybe no surprise there given Henry Ford’s general politics. A lot of it was about looking at different races and ethnicities of workers, and women workers versus men, and factors like disability and age. And trying to predict when workers would wear out while also trying to understand the conditions under which workers would be the most productive and most effective without killing them.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

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