
Riley's Commie Book Club AKA "Better Read Than Dead": Psychopolitics
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The Technology of Power in Neoliberalism
Under neoliberalism, the technology of power takes on a subtle form. It ensures that individuals act on themselves so that power relations are interiorized and interpreted as freedom. So I think a great example of this is actually HQ trivia. By playing the game, they become the product that will eventually be sold by these investors to a different investor because they're the ones who are putting their emotions into it. The people playing this game are a combination of the working class and the means of production and the commodity all at once.
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