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This book is not a critique of the dreams of modernization and progress that offered a vision of stability in the twentieth century; many analysts before me have dissected those dreams. Instead, I address __the imaginative challenge of living without those handrails, which once made us think we knew, collectively, where we were going.__
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Political analyses are not created through rational thought alone. Rather, our emotions, experiences, psychologies, and other bodily processes cannot be completely detached from how we think about and theorise things.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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
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