Monday, November 24, 2014

Fatal Strategies, Slackers and Withdrawing


"Every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death"


Foucault, "The Repressive Hypothesis" from The History of Sexuality, Vol. I
The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow.
Please read the section 'Disciplines and Sciences of the Individual' in Part II, particularly the first four segments (from "The Body of the Condemned" to "Panopticism")

Baudrillard, "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media"

Additional Recommended Baudrillard Readings:

Jean Baudrillard, Requiem for the Media
Jean Baudrillard, The Implosion of Meaning in the Media from Simulacra and Simulation
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McKenzie Wark, The Hacker Manifesto

"Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy."

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