We Are All Very Bad Materialists

The Institute for Precarious Consciousness has engineered theoretical "machines" for their own confusion.

We are all very anxious, and our pervasive anxiety is the “public secret” of the neoliberal era, its “dominant affect,” playing the same role as “misery” in prewar capitalist society and as “boredom” in the Fordist period. What we need more than anything today is to replace the old machines for fighting boredom, built for struggle against the dominant a…