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Matthew Lowery
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The point of doing nothing, as I define it, isn’t to return to work refreshed and ready to be more productive, but rather to question what we currently perceive as productive.
This is the trap of Capitalism. Adorno pointed to this many decades earlier in his essay on "Free Time" - it isn't really 'free' at all, it's still measured and optimised in terms of productivity, specifically how productive it can help you be when you clock into work again on Monday morning. All this perhaps gets worse in a post-COVID19 society of control (as Deleuze calls it) in which work becomes both more flexible and, for that reason, more deeply penetrates into every moment of our waking lives.
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
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“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
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“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”
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