The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
Tag: social reproduction
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status hierarchy: role-play
Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.
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what holds a society together?
Can the relationships supporting ordinary life continue to reproduce themselves under increasingly rapid change?
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Unfinished Systems
Large systems of power, regulation, ideology, and identity do not stabilise by winning or resolving the problems they address. They stabilise by remaining unfinished. Political institutions, security apparatuses, markets, cultural movements, and ideological projects sustain themselves by managing problems they cannot conclusively solve: inequality, threat, disorder, legitimacy, desire, dissent. Total control would terminate their function. […]
