Pleasure Activism

All the rules we’ve been taught—fake it till you make it, win at any cost, suck it up, never give up—are effective if you want to get ahead in the world at the cost of any chance at true happiness. But the world of enjoyment has an entirely different set of rules: Increase attention rather than pressure. Fill up before you extend outward. Follow yo

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in the early 21st Century, the Consumer Story is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, and the Citizen Story is emerging. People are dissatisfied with being mere Consumers, yearn for deeper agency even though we lack the words to express it, and have an innate if imprecise sense that authentic participation holds the key to a brigh

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Work and life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions. As production and distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems. To function effectively as a component of just-in-time production you must develop a capacity to respond to unforeseen events

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