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‘Rosa’s “guiding thesis” on this score is that “for late modern human beings, the world has simply become a point of aggression,” an apt phrase that seemed, sadly, immediately useful as a way of characterizing what it feels like to be alive right now.’
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‘More and more, for the average late modern subject of the ‘developed’ western world, everyday life revolves around and amounts to nothing more than tackling an ever-growing to-do list. The entries on this list constitute the points of aggression that we encounter as the world’
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“...the four dimensions of controllability:
1making the world visible, knowable, expanding our knowledge of it
2making the world physically reachable or accessible
3making the world manageable
4making the world useful
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‘What Rosa calls resonance is a way of relating to the world such that we are open to being affected by it, can respond to its “call,” and then both transform and be transformed by it—adaptive transformation as opposed to mere appropriation.’
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Need to go figure out who the fuck this Illich guy is that the author kept comparing to Rosa
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Turns out this dude is pretty relevant to me as someone constantly being measured and quantified by medicine.
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You’re in for a trip. I haven’t read him myself yet, but everyone who dies seems to turn into an illich-cultist 🤣
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Oh yeah I’m down a rabbit hole and have started spending money. This guy is like the next gen Rudolf Steiner between unschooling and medicine dehumanization
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