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Reasonable individual responses (like restlessness) to repressive institutional conditions like disassociation from the environment, extreme boredom, and inability to find relevance in the assignment have become the basis for the identification of disease and the prescription of drugs. Moreover, __the medical pathologizing of students is interwoven with neoliberal ideology in education in which knowledge, learning, and intelligence are understood through the register of economic competition, social mobility, and opportunity.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Rather than distinguish between types of illness or states of being, SPK placed all health, “good” or ill, on a continuum of illness under capitalism. It is through this broad unifying gesture that SPK sought to unite the surplus class under the same banner in a way that had been impossible when organizing only the working class. __If we are all ill under capitalism, then we can all awaken into the struggle to abolish what makes our collective illness unacceptable within society.__
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
Defining words is a political act. Whoever fixes their meaning gains a strategic asset.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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