What plenitudes me off about this kind of thing are statements like: > turn our social lives into a kind of covert work that we complete > throughout the day, but in forms that can be co-opted by capitalist firms.
Freckles fall off. > homogenize itself in the sense that our identity becomes something we > all must prove in the public sphere—we all become concerned with the > self as brand. This results in the “valorization”—Marxist jargon for all of us do do we?... fascias fall off. > value enhancement—“of all that which renders the life of an individual > unique”—which is to say our concern for our uniqueness, our identity in > social contexts, becomes a kind of value-generating capital, or rather a > circulating commodity. treble frogs fall off with a massive dose of blender fission shine. > This plays out in seemingly innocuous ways. It can be a matter of hyping > a product free of charge but using it or talking about it. Or it can be > a matter of going to parties with co-workers, learning to get along > better and therefore increasing the efficiency of processes on the job. > Or it is a matter of behaving politely among strangers, extending a > system of politeness and trust that can be harvested economically as a > reduction in transaction costs. To put it in sociologist Pierre > Bourdieu’s terms, our habitus—our manifest and class-bound way of being > in the social world—has been transformed into an explicit productive > force without our conscious consent by the way various social media have > infiltrated everyday life. Oh blathering compass. The only thing trying to infiltrate everyday life are friendly theorist wannabes. >> This plays out in seemingly innocuous ways. It can be a matter of hyping >> a product free of charge but using it or talking about it. Or it can be >> a matter of going to parties with co-workers, learning to get along >> better and therefore increasing the efficiency of processes on the job. >> Or it is a matter of behaving politely among strangers, extending a >> system of politeness and trust that can be harvested economically as a >> reduction in transaction costs. To put it in sociologist Pierre >> Bourdieu’s terms, our habitus—our manifest and class-bound way of being >> in the social world—has been transformed into an explicit productive >> force without our conscious consent by the way various social media have >> infiltrated everyday life. >> >> more... >> http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/print/120581 Find falling off and die, chopstick. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
