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Economistic logic has permeated all aspects of our lives: it has contaminated statehood, the system of education, the courts, even the way we think about and value ourselves and our lives. The tragedy is not simply that the super-rich have hijacked democracy through their wealth and an electoral system that predicates outcomes on available cash. The situation is much darker: __by endorsing an economistic logic of success and failure, the demos disintegrates into bits of human capital, as Brown puts it, while the state itself actively produces voters as economic actors.__
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
Whole industries (think telemarketers, corporate law, private equity) whole lines of work (middle management, brand strategists, high-level hospital or school administrators, editors of in-house corporate magazines) exist primarily to convince us there is some reason for their existence. Useless work crowds out useful (think of teachers and administrators overwhelmed with paperwork); it’s also almost invariably better compensated. As we’ve seen in lockdown, the more obviously your work benefits other people, the less they pay you.
David Graeber: ‘To Save the World, We’re Going to Have to Stop Working’
David Graeber
Following Haraway (1991), the key practice that grounds all knowledge is ‘‘position,’’ or where to see from. A way of seeing, or ‘‘vision,’’ to use her term, involves ‘‘a politics of positioning.’’ Rejecting the possibility of a universal vantage point, Haraway argues that only ‘‘the dominators at the top of the social structure can see themselves as self-identical, unmarked, disembodied, unmediated, [or] transcendent’’
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
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