Sublime

So the problem isn’t behavior modification in itself. The problem is relentless, robotic, ultimately meaningless behavior modification in the service of unseen manipulators and uncaring algorithms.

What must be discovered is a way out of the motivation/demotivation binary, so that disidentification from the control program registers as something other than dejected apathy.

Hence, modern theories of management also rest on this negative paradigm, and the modern manager exists largely to prevent dysfunction, limit deviance, and correct error, just as classical psychologists focused on ridding the conscious and unconscious mind of neuroses and phobias.

As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”

In this context, conspiracy theories, as micro-narratives, are a remedy. They are taken up as resources that provide identity and meaning.

Un individu peut avoir une identité multiple et complexe, se sentir en même temps Breton, Français, Européen, humain, Franco-Portugais, Franco-Éthiopien… Il tire sa liberté de sa capacité à jongler entre ses diverses appartenances. De même, un citoyen exerce sa souveraineté à différents niveaux. Il participe au gouvernement de sa commune, de sa rég

Une réponse à cette situation consisterait à transférer les droits du statut de l’emploi à la personne du travailleur. C’est l’idée d’un état professionnel des personnes, qui ne se définit pas par l’exercice d’une profession ou d’un emploi déterminé, mais englobe les diverses formes de travail que toute personne est susceptible d’accomplir durant s

Who gets to do what, where, when and how in this cultural practice, and how does this affect people? What are this practice’s relationships to social engagement, communication, social justice, equality and democracy; how might it contribute to or weaken them? If it invites participation, who can participate and on what terms? What is the quality of