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The intensification of selfhood has gradually opened up the doors to a world in which such privacy has come to be represented by the world of prosperity and ease that the consumer society implies – a world ‘without constraints and without responsibility’ (1989: 199). The consumer is pulled into this world of escapism.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
“Illness,” SPK argued, “was the only form of ‘life’ possible under capitalism.” In both “Eleven Theses on Illness” and “Illness and Capitalism,” SPK explain that illness is the “essential condition” in which the human body and the productive forces of capital intersect: “The capitalist production process is at the same time a process that destroys life. It continually destroys life and produces capital.”
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
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