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A dynamical system can in fact be described by a single curve, upon which all the points satisfy the coefficient requirements: this is why dynamical systems are in effect static, so far as Bourdieu's field is concerned; they divorce whatever is to be modelled from time and therefore from change.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
That we live in an interregnum between a dying order and another not yet stabilized means that the sole certainty shared by all contending parties is that we are in the midst of a rupture, that the contradictions of our present cannot be solved by means of the instruments and procedures of the institutions that brought us here, even if they persist in some fashion today.
Revolts Without Revolution
Adrian Wohlleben
Authoritarian regimes and tech companies possess a striking similarity: an appetite for information about their populations. While Big Tech leverages this data for advertising profits, authoritarian states use it to tighten their grip on their populations.
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