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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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“In its advanced stage, passive depletion has become active destruction: remnants of associations historically charged with the cultivation of norms are increasingly seen as obstacles to autonomous liberty, and the apparatus of the state is directed towards the task of liberating individuals from such bonds.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
“A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The state becomes charged with extending the sphere of commerce, particularly with enlarging the range of trade, production, and mobility. The expansion of markets and the infrastructure necessary for that expansion do not result from 'spontaneous order'; rather, they require an extensive and growing state structure, which at times must extract submission from the system's recalcitrant or unwilling participants.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
“It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending.”
― There Is No Antimemetics Division
― There Is No Antimemetics Division
“One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of umpire and protector of individual liberty; it also takes on an active role 'liberating' individuals who, in the view of the state, are prevented from making wholly free choices as liberal agents.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
“Unlike the ancient Romans who, confident in their eternal city, could not imagine a condition after Rome, the rising barbarism within the city forces us now to consider the prospect that a better way awaits.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
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