Sublime

Because of killjoys, the story goes, we are not allowed to keep our traditions, to do what we had previously enjoyed doing in a relaxed and uncontroversial manner.

If you work in a job or field where it’s impossible to remain safely under the radar, you have to find another way to take care of yourself. So you unconsciously adopt an ever-changing profile. As an impostor you feel like you have a big target on your back. What better way to dodge those you believe have overestimated your abilities than to make y

I learned early on to respect that taking up a role that represents change and loss to some people can be costly. Sometimes the assassination is physical—but usually people go after your character, your competence, or your family, and you can be scapegoated, marginalized, seduced, or otherwise neutralized.

se multiplient les incitations à se gérer telle une « marchandise en quête d’un acheteur47 » à chaque intermittence de l’emploi. Gorz le sartrien constate lucidement : À défaut d’emploi, les stages destinés à assurer une « employabilité » censée être insuffisante ont une fonction idéologique inavouée : ils consolident et développent l’aptitude à l’

That is what Sociopaths ultimately do with their lives if they survive long enough: generate amoral power from increasing inner emptiness, transforming themselves into forces of nature. As a side-effect, they also manufacture transient meanings to fuel the theaters of religiosity (including various secular religions) that lend meaning to lives of L

Today’s educational administrators are concerned with controlling teachers and students to the satisfaction of others—trustees, legislatures, and corporate executives. Network builders and administrators would have to demonstrate genius at keeping themselves, and others, out of people’s way, at facilitating encounters among students, skill models,

Up to that point in his life, Sam hadn’t led much of anything or even been vaguely responsible for other people. He’d managed puzzle hunts out of his parents’ home in high school. He’d spent a year as “Commander” of a twenty-five-person living group at MIT. It crossed his mind, now that he was starting his own business, that he should read up on ho

An ideology is usually a high-minded mask for a group’s itch to take power and resources from other social groups.