Our politics are faint echoes of things happening elsewhere, everywhere: the thud of flesh double-tapping glass, precisely simulated clicks, the brush of magnetic strips through plastic, faceless voices from inside gas pumps chiding us to know things we don’t care about as we fill the tank with guilt. In other words, politics follows the forces that are actually transforming our world: production and consumption. Not the reverse.
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About my time sweating in a sauna in Berlin, a college bro talking to his mother in a sauna in Rochester, and also how coincidence can be simulated to make consumption feel meaningful.
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