A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
For us, the three A's – ambiguity, articulation and assemblage – offer a means of examining the alignments of power and politics in these new formations of publicness.
Publics, Politics and Power
Janet Newman and John Clarke
Each time he had taken a larger or smaller step on a seemingly straight road—and yet he now stood at the end of this road, by no means at the heart of the universe and the innermost core of truth. Rather, his present awakening, too, was no more than a brief opening of his eyes, a finding himself in a new situation, a fitting into new constellations.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
“When we enter the world of profit-and-loss statements, when the psychological costs of emotional labor are not acknowledged by the company,” writes Hochschild, then we may come to understand the need to perform passion as a burden that alienates us from passions we actually feel in our lives.