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Consumption is also a practice of appropriation.
Consumption is not just the greedy ingestion of the Other that leaves the consuming subject unchanged. The things we appropriate, with which we surround ourselves, create the substance of our selves in the first place.
Hyperculture
Byung-Chul Han and Daniel Steuer
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It’s a nice day, or You’re very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn’t know about.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman
By embarking on adventures with no greater intention than having fun, tricksters eventually discover values, order, and morality anew.
Tricking Power Into Performing Acts of Love
Shepherd Siegel
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