#achievement society

[noosphe-re]

Today's society is no longer Foucault's disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellschaft]. Also, its inhabitants are no longer "obedience-subjects" but "achievement-subjects." They are entrepreneurs of themselves. The walls of disciplinary institutions, which separate the normal from the abnormal, have come to seem archaic. Foucault's analysis of power cannot account for the psychic and topological changes that occurred as disciplinary society transformed into achievement society. Nor does the commonly employed concept of "control society" do justice to this change. It still contains too much negativity.

Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

[teachanarchy]

Why We’re All Burning Out | Byung-Chul Han’s Warning to the World

[karmaalwayswins]

Now Reading:

Byung-Chul Han "The Burnout Society" (2015)

Photo Credit: karmaalwayswins

[slutforpringles]

via: Mumbrella | Daniel Ricciardo’s Enchanté Rosé to land in Dan Murphé

[dandp]

When Dan applies the "cringe is dead/our old content has merit and was special even if it's hard to watch now" mentality that they've had in all the react videos to Hello Internet too...then I will know peace

[bee--28]

Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call by Bleachers actually belongs to Cameron and Charlie, argue with the wall.

"And it's strangley calm now 'cause everybody's gone it's just you and your anger"

Cameron was mad. Charlie was mad. Their emotions were high in their last scene together. When they are separated from those moments and they're left to seeth in their anger they both realize that that's the last time they'll ever speak, neither can tell if they're happy or upset by that. It's that kind of calm that breaks the soul.

"Oh golden boy, don't act like you were kind. You were mine but you were awful every time"

Charlie is kinda the "golden boy" of the friend group, likable, fun, he brings some joy into Welton, an otherwise gloomy environment. But he was a dick to Cameron, he was genuinely horrible to him.

"But you should know that I died slow, running through the halls of your haunted home"

Charlie's presence haunts Welton and more specifically Cameron. He's everywhere, he made an impact that Cameron can't escape, it looms over him.

"And the toughest part is that we both know what happened to you, why you're out on your own"

Both Charlie and Cameron ended up alone because of what they both respectively did. And they both kinda hate each other for how it all ended.

"You know I'm not your father ... he flickers through your damage"

Cameron's father influences his actions at the end. The decision to throw Keating under the bus and betray his friends is a decision he made based on how his father would've reacted, what his father would've wanted. Cameron is a broken teenager and it's because of the decisions he makes in his father's image.

"Don't hold me like you know me, I would rather hurt forever"

Charlie would rather get expelled and leave the only people that like him than ever see Cameron again. He'd rather start over completely and be a shell of what he previously was than remember that he was once friends with Cameron.

"Merry Christmas, I'm not yours at all"

Cameron misses Charlie, but he has no real right to. They were never what Cameron wished they were. They were barely friends, even as kids when they were closest. And now they'd never speak again.

[caelanthe]

Fanfiction is so goated actually

No monetary incentive, just writing in one's free time. Some incentive for like kudos and comments, because who doesn't want to hear that someone else enjoyed what they wrote. Just writing a story that is good and/or enjoyable, no real-life pressure to keep it going because god forbid you and other people are depending on it financially.

Writing a story because you want to write a good story, so you can write what they want the way you want, at a pace that is realistic for you, with exactly the plot pacing you want there to be.

[waltzing-with-butterflies]

i reach and stretch

until the bones in my shoulder

split, twist, crack

until my spine and back

get cloven, separated, bent

i sink my nails in concrete

pull myself up until it dries

from my joints,

it sucks the water out

i become the very first tree

recognizing its own breath

fueling the fires that cauterize

~stella

[hadescavedish]

I truly support Flint's vision because I believe in revolution is a definitive step towards freedom and new order and I think reformism is wrong. But I truly wonder what kind of things Silver had undergone pre-series rendered him utterly, consistently disillusioned towards anything at all. The writers had hinted so, but also they enforced the notion again that it is no matter whatever happened then. It's not part of the current narrative - even if it was the root of it.

[gideonisms]

Does a podcast ever release a take you disagree with so strongly it makes you question everything you heard on it up to that point

[nicorobinwifey]

omg fem buggy hiii<3

if nobody got me i know thick lines got me

This is a few months old, but I kinda changed my lineart style since then, so I decided to re do it a little.

She is an icon, shes a legend and she is just as silly as canon buggy

ODA YOU ALREADY MADE FEM LAW CANON, DON'T BE SHY AND SHOW US THE FULL BUGGY POTENTIAL

I promised to post a fem law but halfway I remembered I CANT DO HANDS, so it'll take a while, maybe next week I'll post it, for now I'll be posting my old stuff, enjoy<3

Traducción al español y bonus:

Este dibujo lo hice hace unos meses, pero ahora hago el lineart distinto así que lo edite un poco

BUGGY MINA ES ICONICA, ES UNA LEGENDA Y ES TAN CHISTOSITA COMO BUGGY NORMAL

Había prometido subir a law mujer en el post anterior pero a mitad de camino recordé que soy FISICAMENTE INCAPAZ de dibujar manos, por lo que lo subiré la próxima semana (quizás, tengo examen de cálculo en varias variables asi que no prometo nada), por ahora creo que iré subiendo mis dibujos viejos (son un par así que durará poco)

Acá abajo esta el dibujo original que hice hace unos meses

[aerithisms]

how is it that avatar has a beautiful message about listening to other points of view and approaching people with compassion and understanding but the general audience only cares about dick measuring contests over who the strongest avatar is and dunking on korra for making mistakes and going through traumatic events that were not her fault. like first of all how uncompassionate and antithetical to the message of the show you claim to love. and second of all have you people ever thought about considering avatar as a piece of fiction where the characters have to have flaws to create compelling conflicts. why are you all so fucking stupid and boring!!!!!! RAHHH!!!!

[bumblingbabooshka]

Hey, Star Trek Writers... -taps the glass-

[innocet]

lungbarrow is such a book that has a serious case of gender without knowing it. i want to know what marc platt thinks is going to happen to gallifreyan society when Women are Mothers (and childcare is presumably the role of the Mother) again. he seems to think this is a feminist proposition (what with it being pushed by Romana and her progressive all-female high council). The Solution to pythia's curse is presented as abandoning isolationism with Leela being the first mother on gallifrey in thousands of years but that has um. An Implication. especially with leela's indigenous coding. at that point in time i'd imagine most gallifreyans consider themselves Too Civilized for childbearing; is this now the role of a "less civilized" social class instead of a Loom/House? I mean what does marc think time lord gender is in the first place WHAT is going on here.

[scarletlotus182]

Okay, here are my thoughts; The Strike Freedom showing up and disabling mobile suits without killing anyone is, imo, just a bit dumb- at least in how it's portrayed. The consecutive head shots that conveniently destroy the heads of every MS looks silly and the incredibly precise shot that blows up the rifle before it can destroy the Archangel's bridge is dumb. HOWEVER- Kira cutting the legs off the Duel Gundam and punting Yzak into the distance was GREAT.

And that's mostly what I have to say on the choreography of the scene itself. Conceptually... I think it falls kind of flat because to me it feels like they're trying copy Turn A Gundam.

The whole premise of Turn A is this great and powerful weapon of war is only as destructive as the person controlling it and Loran proves that by consistently using it for more mundane purposes to help people in need, only fighting when necessary, and avoiding killing at all costs and it works so well in part because, imo, the Turn A also has a pretty unassuming appearance.

Compared to the Strike Freedom in SEED, you have this super flashy machine armed to teeth with beam weapons because it needs to be exciting and look *cool* and sell kits- and so when it tries to do the same thing as the Turn A it looks ridiculous because it does it in the most flashy and violent way possible