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Of the two great ideas of the nineteenth century, socialism and somatism, it was clearly only the latter that could be widely established, and one need not be a prophet to assert that the twenty-first century will belong to it completely, even more than the twentieth.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
History is central to Gramsci’s account of effective politics for two reasons.
First, the truth embedded in senso comune is not generic: it is specific to a conjuncture—to a time, a place, and a particular social group. Second, to be historically effective, the ‘philosophy of praxis’ that emerges from senso comune has to link up to the broad economic and social processes that shape the conjuncture, enabling the social group to develop a new, more coherent and reflexive knowledge and make it into the organizing principle of collective action (Thomas, 2010).
Politics, Interrupted
Tania Murray Li
For Sennett then, contemporary consumption is all about theatre: objects evolved to offer the consumer desires and capabilities that are capable of not just buttressing a sense of self, but of actually stretching the boundaries according to which the self operates. Work becomes a focal point for this way of thinking. It becomes a form of consumption itself. A form of self-consumption, in fact, in which work is less about meeting organisational goals and more about exceeding personal ones.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
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