It is worth stressing that none of the students I taught had any legal obligation to be at college. They could leave if they wanted to. But the lack of any meaningful employment opportunities, together with cynical encouragement from government means that college seems to be the easier, safer option. Deleuze says that Control societies are based on debt rather than enclosure; but there is a way in which the current education system both indebts and encloses students. Pay for your own exploitation, the logic insists – get into debt so you can get the same McJob you could have walked into if you’d left school at sixteen…
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The children of May 68, you can run into them all over the place, even if they are not aware of who they are. Each country produces them in its own way. Their situation isn't so great. They are not young executives. They are strangely indifferent, and for this very reason are in the right frame of mind. They have stopped being demanding and narcissistic, but they know perfectly well that nothing today corresponds to their subjectivity, to their potential of energy. They even know that all current reforms are rather directed against them. They are determined to mind their own business as much as they can. They hold it open, hang onto something possible.
Deleuze and Guattari, 'May 68 Did Not Take Place', in Two Regimes of Madness.
Deleuze and Guattari, 'May 68 Did Not Take Place', in Two Regimes of Madness.
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Shuji Terayama, Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す, Den-en ni shisu), 1974
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