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Instead, it’s more promises about the perfect life that awaits if we attain our perfected body double. Our Bodies, Ourselves, the health bible my mother regularly consulted, has been supplanted with an all-pervasive ethos of “my body, my worth”—the corollary of which seems to be “your body, your problem.”
We're left with such a deterministic conception of production that the dynamic possibilities of randomness - aesthetic jihad, poetic terrorism, graffiti, the theatre of cruelty - are all lost: none can have an effect upon the field of power because all are low-level strata in the hierarchy, and can only affect themselves or other fields, such as the political.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
It was the public service-oriented BBC and Channel 4 that perplexed and delighted me with the likes of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, Pinter plays and Tarkovsky seasons; it was this BBC that also funded the popular avant gardism of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which embedded sonic experimentalism into everyday life. Such innovations are unthinkable now that the public has been displaced by the consumer.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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