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Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The neo-liberal organisation of our society is determining how we relate to our bodies, our partners, our colleagues, and our children — in short, to our identities. And you can’t get much more disordered than that.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
in the present phase of capitalist development, the distinction between production and reproduction has become totally blurred, as work becomes the production of states of being, “affects,” and “immaterial” rather than physical objects.36
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Under modernity, each person must be a piece in a jigsaw puzzle: completely unique but predictably so—a piece that is different from all those around it but still able to fit into a larger picture. We have more artifacts, both material and digital, than ever with which to enact our identities, yet we can never seem capable of staying unique for lon
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
L’incitation faite au consommateur à se produire selon l’image de lui-même que lui tend la publicité, et à changer son identité d’emprunt au gré des changements des goûts et de la mode, le prépare à se produire dans son travail conformément au modèle qui le rendra employable et vendable. Dans l’un et l’autre cas, l’activité de se produire est la cl
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