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Difficulty is counterproductive in a flexible regime. By a terrible paradox, when we diminish difficulty and resistance, we create the very conditions for uncritical and indifferent activity on the part of the users.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
“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
Labor time is intelligible as a cost only because we value our finite lifetime as our own free time, which we in principle could devote to an activity that is meaningful in itself.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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