[...] Although Gregor volunteered at a community garden, gave millions of each year to humanitarian crisis organizations, and voted only for socialists, he did like to cause a bit of microsuffering now and then. He felt it kept the engineers on their toes.
When Roni asked Arsyen about prioritzation, Arsyen asked, "Is this on the roadmap?"
When Sven suggested adding images of attractive women to the car dashboard, Arsyen rubbed his chin.
"Does this align with our strategy?"
When all three looked to him for an opinion in how best to implement …
It was precisely because they were so potentially transformative that they could be so retrospectively commodified. Because the energy of transformation then becomes a kind of residual libido. When the conditions for the struggle are no longer there you can still appeal to that libido, the transfor…
But I wonder if identity logic — taking identity as the model rather than class — is the issue here, for understanding those other forms of struggle. And this was the way in which the Right could capture these struggles. Because you could say it’s not the positive features of actually existing wome…
[...] Capital can know, right? Capital can know, because capital is like evolution: it selects for things. Capital has agency. Mark Zuckerberg has a kind of idiotic compulsion to like, errghh I wanna make loads of money and, like, impress some girls. (Laughter.) As we see in [David Fincher’s 2010 f…
