TECHNOLOGY

Psychology

Essay: Love Removal Machines

The artistic critique of capitalism wanted to liberate us from the chains of conformity, but at the same time the social security net was being dismantled. Then neoliberalism turned this hard-won freedom into a duty and everybody became an artist. If, in 1968, breaking with the family was a prerequisite to living as one wished, fifty years later it is back with redoubled force. Through highways and byways, we have come full circle.

Essay: Fashion as peer pressure

"Fashion posits a consensus reality even as it is always in the process of undoing it. This is how it maintains its grip on the social: not by laying down an invariable law that all must obey but by undercutting any ground on which one could stand outside its influence, by making rejecting fashion itself a fashionable pose."