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The pleasures of experience are an increasingly intense characteristic of our relationship to places and spaces, and the more that they are so, the less tangible becomes our relationship to the power bases that created them. Herein lies the power of the experience society.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
A pliant self, a collage of fragments unceasing in its becoming, ever open to new experience—these are just the psychological conditions suited to short-term work experience, flexible institutions, and constant risk-taking. __But there is little room for understanding the breakdown of a career, if you believe that all life history is just an assemblage of fragments.__ Nor is there any room for assaying the gravity and pain of failure, if failure is just another incident.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
Following Jürgen Habermas and echoing Wilber, I have argued that __one of the defining aspects of our postmodern culture is its lack of meta-theory and meta-narrative, and the related inability of individuals to build universalized and historicized self-understandings.__ According to this line of thought, it is no longer the singular ideological meta-narrative of modernity that inhibits the moral evolution of the species (such as Capitalism, Communists, and the Church, etc.). It is now the absence of any explicitly shared meta-narrative or meta-theory that inhibits enlightenment. Behind the polyvocal pastiche of our postmodern geo-historical moment, meta-theories and meta-narratives exist in abundance; they have simply been forced underground, __As Bhaskar demonstrated in his ideology critique of positivism, one of the most powerful things a meta-theory can do is to convince the world it does not exist, or more typically, that there is simply no alternative.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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