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instead of elected officials, permanently subject to control and dismissal, who were to ensure the functioning of government until such time as “every cook would learn how to rule the State”, there is a professional bureaucracy, freed from responsibility,
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
The idea of collectivity resembles Hannah Arendt’s later notion of “thoughtlessness,” the condition she associated with Adolph Eichmann.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The fundamental idea of the book is the power of the bureaucracy.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
L. M. Sacasas • Laughter In Dark Times
people living in post-Internet society may no longer have an unconscious
— Byung-Chul Han
As for its symbolic functions of initiation, the contemporary “democratic” state is bankrupt.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
L’Etat au service des personnes ne doit ni les contraindre ni se servir d’elles comme d’instruments aveugles pour des fins qu’elles ignorent.