mia moraru’s Reviews > Topology of Violence > Status Update

achievement society = doping society. keeping healthy at all costs in order to keep the excessive growth & progress going. ‘They are too alive to die and too dead to live.’ yikes
i disagree w his take on labor camps no longer being located on the ‘outskirts’ of society. yes we’ve brought a lot of those practices into the everyday, but CECOT, prisons, israeli torture camps etc..still hidden in plain sight

‘The only possible way to oppose empire would be to mitigate the process that creates it, eliminating its diabolical sting.’
but what does that even mean?? concretely?
acceleration of empire will lead to total burnout and be catastrophic, he says. lowkey what we’re seeing happen right now i believe.
how do we reverse these processes? what is the alternative?

‘The lack of a counterforce perpetuates the neoliberal economic order. It develops a strong appropriative energy, which absorbs everything and converts it into a capitalist formula.’
ouch

empire is decentralized capitalist regime these days. lack of belonging and community makes class alignment very difficult.
everyone within the capitalist system belongs to it, he says is both victim and perpetrator, which makes resistance nearly impossible.
everyone is hurt and subject to the expectations, but i still see a ruling class that, while also subject to this, are the main arbiters of continuing it all

‘Deficiency naturally comes to an end when the point of saturation is reached, but excess knows no end.’

some forms of negativity, like pausing boredom hesitating etc, can actually be constructive and necessary

i don’t really understand what he defines as ‘diabolical’ and what he thinks is the source of this.

over communication, spamification, once more hyper positivity and acceleration.

‘i am, therefore i shop.’ lol han makes me laugh

transparency of today, the panopticon. obscenity of everything as on display, everything exposed, everything able to be equated to a price, every subject is its own product for sale.
‘The society of achievement reaches maximum efficiency when freedom and self-exploitation are indistinguishable.’ self exposure and self exploitation merge’
transparency as an economic compulsion

‘The more political and action is, the more secrecy it generates.’
oof…i must do more research on this…