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“Life subordinated to the dictates of health, optimization, and performance comes to resemble mere survival” (pg 55)

“The art of life opposes the terror of psychology. The narcissistic retreat into the ego, into psychology, destroys the space of play, the fantasy of play. The art of life means escaping oneself in search for as yet unnamed forms of life and play.” (Pg 54)

“Today, temporally intense transitions are disintegrating into speedy passages, continuous links and endless clicks (pg 35)

“They bring forth a community without communication; today, however, communication without community prevails.” 😱