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A self-reflective performance society

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The self-reflective performance society is 'you can, not you must.'Rather than commands or prohibitions, it lets the performance-subject define their own existence through 'freedom and initiative' - and as a result the subject exploits themselves until they completely collapse.

In this way, violence and freedom become one, and the individual plays the role of a labor camp where they are simultaneously the inmate and the guard.

 

 

 

I wonder... haven't I been like this too? 

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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