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neoliberalism is the capitalism of ‘Like’

Power that is smart and friendly does not operate frontally – i.e., against the will of those who are subject to it. Instead, it guides their will to its own benefit. It says ‘yes’ more often than ‘no’; it operates seductively, not repressively. It seeks to call forth positive emotions and exploit …

—p.14 Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
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we work for Capital

In our world, we no longer work in order to satisfy our own needs. Instead, we work for Capital. Capital generates needs of its own; mistakenly, we perceive these needs as if they belonged to us. Capital therefore represents a new kind of transcendence, which entails a new form of subjectivation.…

—p.7 by Byung-Chul Han
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it rolled in waves of pure lemon

[...] she thought, watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood her with delight, she had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more bri…

—p.92 Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew Changing Point of View (87) by Virginia Woolf
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what rhythm is advice/writing

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhyth…

—p.32 Sentence Length and Complex Syntax (20) by Virginia Woolf
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what rhythm is advice/writing

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhyth…

—p.32 Sentence Length and Complex Syntax (20) by Virginia Woolf