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Meritocracy Agonistes

On elite anxieties and the instrumentalization of education.

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Aug 31, 2020
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Whoever wishes to experience the truth of immediate life, must investigate its alienated form, the objective powers, which determine the individual existence into its innermost recesses.

Theodor Adorno

Reimagining collective life means destroying the meritocracy and the tentacular, “elite” institutions that support it. To remake the world in a more just w…

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