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Coronavirus and Its Discontents

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Television and the Bottle Episode

i'm not sure there's a least important way of looking at television then academically. What i think has to be seized in this moment is that like what's the point of expertise when everyone is sort of everyone's suffering? The chance for radical political potential that we have right now, he says. We are forced in our own psyche and into the psyche of other people which is a total confrontation with antagonism both in individual and group. It also goes back to a larger existential one which is  what is the point of being an expert if it doesn't bring us closer to each other all of these things go together.

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