Simone Weil distinguished suffering, which the soul survives, from affliction, which brands it. The current deployment of statistical models across the trades is producing the....
Arendt feared the man who declined to think. The present has produced a man for whom thinking was never positioned in the process at all.
Affliction was always partly constituted by the absence of witness. The recording apparatus has now interposed itself between the seeing and the seen, and calls this progress.
