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Normal People, digital capitalism, and the anxiety of mortality

Posted on April 19, 2019May 23, 2020 by EDA Editors

Izzy Dann argues that Will Self's aversion to normal stuff shows a lot more about neoliberalism (and himself) than it does about the things we like to criticize.

Tagged bataille, media studies, rooney, sally rooney, will self

The daily papers talk of everything except the daily. The papers annoy me, they teach me nothing. What they recount doesn’t concern me, doesn’t ask me questions and doesn’t answer the questions I ask or would like to ask.

– Georges Perec (1973)

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