it seemed that way back in the 50s or so, but our culture, and in general capitalism is moving towards collective unitarism rather than fragmentation, making fragmentation a useful tool again
Capitalism's current 'free' proliferation of identities, self-experimentation is a pseudo-fragmentation. You can have your various kinds of hobbyist identities or in-groups, just so long as capitalism can sell it to you and you can sell it onto others. Just so long as this fragmentation poses no risk to capitalism's unitary tendency of a few powerful signifiers, such as massive corporations, politicians, entrepreneurs, facilitating the proliferation of perfectly commodifiable identities, pushing people into tacitly taking up fixed molar identifications and categories like nation, ethnicity, religion, regionality etc.
Collective action is ultimately going to trip up as it too is trying to impose a fixed collective identity in the face of the inherently fragmentary processes of desire.
No, we need new kinds of fragmentation that side-step the capturing or seizing up effect on them by capitalist flows.
yeah, and pseudo-fragmentation is detrimental to true fragmentation. in its unitary government, lies a fake notion of freedom and liberty, both harmful enlightenment values
it seemed that way back in the 50s or so, but our culture, and in general capitalism is moving towards collective unitarism rather than fragmentation, making fragmentation a useful tool again
Capitalism's current 'free' proliferation of identities, self-experimentation is a pseudo-fragmentation. You can have your various kinds of hobbyist identities or in-groups, just so long as capitalism can sell it to you and you can sell it onto others. Just so long as this fragmentation poses no risk to capitalism's unitary tendency of a few powerful signifiers, such as massive corporations, politicians, entrepreneurs, facilitating the proliferation of perfectly commodifiable identities, pushing people into tacitly taking up fixed molar identifications and categories like nation, ethnicity, religion, regionality etc.
Collective action is ultimately going to trip up as it too is trying to impose a fixed collective identity in the face of the inherently fragmentary processes of desire.
No, we need new kinds of fragmentation that side-step the capturing or seizing up effect on them by capitalist flows.
yeah, and pseudo-fragmentation is detrimental to true fragmentation. in its unitary government, lies a fake notion of freedom and liberty, both harmful enlightenment values