capitalism consumes resistance

• “Even if people would actively attempt to resist the mainstream mental state that they are being lured into on every single dimension of their life, this very act of resistance would be immediately swallowed by and become a legitimate part of the system. As the authors had it: “[a]nyone who resists can only survive by fitting in. Once his [sic] particular brand of deviation from the norm has been noted by the industry, he belongs to it as does the land-reformer to capitalism”(ibid., p.133).” ⤴️

• “Deleuze’s concept of the control society, in which, through the pervasiveness of electronic technologies, “[i]ndividuals have become ‘dividuals’, and masses, samples, data, markets, or ‘banks’” (1992. p.5)” ⤴️

• “an illusory sensation of living in a constant presence without beginning and end” ⤴️

• “media infrastructures historically identified as sharply divided into phases of production and consumption, and subsequently, a sharp divide of media practitioners into producers and consumers. In his opinion, these mass media and technologies give receivers a series of fabricated and pre-established, mass-scale audio-visual experiences and narratives, effectively paralyzing all opportunity to construct and express individuality within collectives. ”