Gilles Châtelet

“[..] neoproletariat caste, the future cybercattle of neurocracy, joyous sophisticate of the always-incomplete chain of predation, primed by silos of soya, stocks of onions, pork bellies…and completed by the global apotheosis of the Great Futures Market of neurolivestock, more volatile (and more profitable) than all the livestock of the Great Plains. Neurolivestock certainly enjoy an existence more comfortable than serfs or millworkers, but they do not easily escape their destiny as the self-regulating raw material of a market as predictable and as homogeneous as a perfect gas, a matter counted in atoms of distress, stripped of all powers of negotiation, renting out their mental space, brain by brain.”
― Gilles Châtelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies

“It is not quite correct that a higher rate of participation is always favourable for democracy…. A growth in the rate of participation can indicate a weakening of social cohesion which will lead democracy to its death; inversely, the widespread opinion that ‘voting can’t change much’, by diminishing participation, can contribute to the stability of the regime.”
― Gilles Châtelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies