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The trouble is that ideals of freedom can be produced out of and within what Saidiya Hartman calls “scenes of subjection”—that freedom can legitimately be practiced as subjugation.10 Freedom can entail both nondomination and domination, both worldmaking and world destruction, both challenges to and impositions of unjust authority. Rather than disavowing this dynamic to discard subjugating freedoms as either insincerity or false consciousness, I take the ambivalence and violence of freedom’s expression seriously. Ugly Freedoms de-idealizes freedom and its entailments.
Ugly Freedoms
Elisabeth R. Anker
If all you ever see of your ideological opponents online is their very worst behavior, you’re liable to assume that even family members who differ from you politically must be similarly, irredeemably bad, making relationships with them hard to maintain.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
people do have a notion of the social value of their work; but our society has reached the point where not only is the social value of work usually in inverse proportion to its economic value (the more one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it), but many people have come to accept this situation is morally right—they genuinely believe this is how things ought to be.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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