[D66] Paranoid Subjectivity and the Challenges of Cognitive Mapping – How is Capitalism to be Represented?

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The most shocking thing about the Edward Snowden revelations is not so
much their content as the fact that they have been met with little
interest or surprise; not because people are unconcerned about the
erosion of civil liberties, but because they thought that they knew all
of this already. The internet now seems to produce a mode of
hyper-connectivity, short-circuiting any separation between public and
private. Along with the internationalisation of finance and other
aspects of globalisation, this can make it feel as if everything has
become completely interconnected, and there is nowhere left to hide from
the encroachment of capital.