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... exploited for its profitability by a marketing economy and registered in the inner recesses of the individual in heightened self - consciousness about appearance . Trained in a market economy to look upon ourselves as commodities and to ...
... exploited for its profitability by a marketing economy and registered in the inner recesses of the individual in heightened self - consciousness about appearance . Trained in a market economy to look upon ourselves as commodities and to ...
Page xxi
... exploitation , and between defensive weapons and genocidal force . As for the individual , it explored the tensions between reason and emotion , spontaneity and calculation , humanity and the machine , creativity and technical expertise ...
... exploitation , and between defensive weapons and genocidal force . As for the individual , it explored the tensions between reason and emotion , spontaneity and calculation , humanity and the machine , creativity and technical expertise ...
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... exploitation of primitive , under- developed , or Third World countries ; that the natural resources necessary to support modern life may be exhausted in the next twenty years — all of this remains opaque in the romance of science ...
... exploitation of primitive , under- developed , or Third World countries ; that the natural resources necessary to support modern life may be exhausted in the next twenty years — all of this remains opaque in the romance of science ...
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Contents
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The Bureaucratic Society of Controlled Consumption | 68 |
Linguistic Phenomena | 110 |
Terrorism and Everyday Life | 143 |
Towards a Permanent Cultural Revolution | 194 |
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