"There is the technocratic violence of top‑down modernization, which bulldozes existing ways of life and calls the rubble progress. And there is … a baroque ethos: Accept that modernity is here to stay but refuse to live it in the pure, hygienic form that capital prefers."

"Distress finds culturally available idioms: ways of expressing suffering in a language the surrounding world will recognize … A body made of glass cannot be sent to war, cannot be married off … The delusion did real work." publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-a...

"The imperative to use AI to create is an attempt to frame a problem of politics as a problem of efficiency. I do not need to be more efficient, I need time and freedom to read and to think and to write and to fail as we all do."

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