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Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation

Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation

Stevphen Shukaitis
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. Political Science. An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and we are continually presented with the alternative of going here or going there. Then we decide, we cut out from a set of infinite possibilities and choose a single path. But do we really choose? Is it really a question of a choice, when we go here rather than there? Is it really a choice, when masses go to shopping centers, when revolutions are transformed into massacres, when nations enter into war? It is not we who decide but the concatenations: machines for the liberation of desires and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. The fundamental bifurcation is always this one: between machines for liberating desire and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. In our time of digital mutation, technical automatisms are taking control of the social psyche.
Language
English
Pages
153
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Minor Compositions
Release
September 01, 2009
ISBN
1570272077
ISBN 13
9781570272073

Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation

Stevphen Shukaitis
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. Political Science. An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up in front of us, and we are continually presented with the alternative of going here or going there. Then we decide, we cut out from a set of infinite possibilities and choose a single path. But do we really choose? Is it really a question of a choice, when we go here rather than there? Is it really a choice, when masses go to shopping centers, when revolutions are transformed into massacres, when nations enter into war? It is not we who decide but the concatenations: machines for the liberation of desires and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. The fundamental bifurcation is always this one: between machines for liberating desire and mechanisms of control over the imaginary. In our time of digital mutation, technical automatisms are taking control of the social psyche.
Language
English
Pages
153
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Minor Compositions
Release
September 01, 2009
ISBN
1570272077
ISBN 13
9781570272073

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