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user-inactivated  ·  3996 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Against the Modern Cult of Spontaneity

    The invitation to citizens to luxuriate in a pleasurable absence of deliberation perhaps connects, too, the rhetorical fashion for spontaneity with the sudden promotion of “mindfulness” by corporate and state interests.

Come onnnnnnnn New Republic. This fucking article is everything I despise. Sorry I'm not being fair, but who the fuck writes a book called "How to Read Literature," and who else the fuck writes about someone who wrote "How to Read Literature"? I'll stop now. Gonna go read some literature.





user-inactivated  ·  3996 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Save your hate for the New Statesman.

    This piece first appeared on newstatesman.com.

I don't disagree though, what an atrocious sentence.

user-inactivated  ·  3996 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I saw that, but NR gets anti-props for rehosting this mess. Ah well. They do good stuff fairly often.