Beyond the age of cynicism
Deleuze and Guattari on cynicism and bad conscience in the capitalist era
[Drawing by
]cynicism is capital as the means of extorting surplus labor […] This age of cynicism is that of the accumulation of capital.
—Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus[1]
Across the political spectrum, we can find an outlook of cynicism, a view of society as largely defined by hypocrisy, inauthenticity, and a shallow pursuit of material possessions…
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