... stupidity, which in turn aggravates disindividuation and its suffering. Like practicing the piano, which is above all a pleasure, like riding a bicycle, or hiking through the mountains, or swimming, the instrument that is the present work demands effort from its readers (effort that may also bring...

... (Stiegler 2013 : 220). A pharmacology of ideology would therefore be an account of the way in which such processes of idealization are always at risk of regressing and of producing regression: instead of being knowledgeable and capacitating, they give rise to stupidity and incapacitation. For the fact...

.../washwire/2016/03/04/in-michigan-overflow-crowd-devours-trumps-serving-of-insults-and-braggadoccio/ . Fatawesome . 2007 . “ Stupid, Fat, Arrogant Americans .” YouTube , December 4 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1aRzoXRPuA . Fearnow Benjamin . 2018 . “ Critics Are ‘Fat-Shaming’ President...

... as doxa, she is attuned to its subtexts and knows that no matter what space she occupies, she is not in the right space according to doxa. Therefore, she tells herself, just do a stupid painting. And when deeply seated aesthetic criteria reassert themselves, she reassures herself: the painting you just...

... and the knowledgeable (the studier is neither ignorant nor a master, thus rendering inoperative institutional hierarchies, ritualized forms of legitimation, and codified social roles). Agamben points out that studying and stupefying are closely connected (1995: 64). Stupidity here is not simply a lack...

..., this standpoint is rather inconsistent, if not somewhat hypocritical: after chastising the producers and viewers of shows like 1000 Ways to Die for being insensitive and believing that the depicted victims deserved to die for their stupidity, Foster goes on to condemn all humans. Since humanity is “the most...

... that this racism disseminates not solely from the current pandemic; it is a systemic one that has its roots from a long time ago, its historical trace resurfacing in other epithets for the pandemic such as the anachronistic “yellow peril” or the stupid-sounding “kung flu” (as proclaimed by Donald Trump...

... liberation of desire, Stiegler ( 2015 ) views it as an example of stupidity and a gratuitous attack against institutions. 16. By institutions, Stiegler typically means the institutions of the French Third Republic, such as the school that is there to provide a national education. Unlike Deleuze...

... such strategy of living otherwise, the Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “Against Feminine Luxury,” written in 1920, addresses how the dominant culture of male weakness and stupidity has positioned feminine luxury and how it has attempted to further the “disease” of “outfit-itis” and transform women...

... that it is provisional, fleeting, lonely, loveless, stupid, uncritical, and unethical, simply because there are no durable social relations able to survive the good times or, more important, the bad times, when we need to support and care for one another. In the thoughtless, liquid society there are no long-term social...

... is that recognition of the basic, elementary will of the virus might shock us out of our complacent, unthinking busyness and lead us to think about the way our humanity exceeds the primitive functionalism of the bundle of genetic material on the edge of life. In other words, understanding the stupid drive...

... stupid in the same year that he walked out of Mussolini’s Fascist Party conference in disgust, proclaiming his departure from politics for the next three years. That he failed to do, as Marinetti spent his time making abundant notes on the culture of the Fascist Party and its political philosophy, which...

...). It is a bewildering experience, one that Lyotard might have described as “a being taken aback amid the always already said: stupor. A stupid passion rises in the domestic dough. As though the god were dropping the share he took in the common bake” ( 1997 : 263). But perhaps Fredericks, a friend of Willis's, said...

... persists anywhere, it persists everywhere. We dream that Donald Trump's disastrous rejection of intelligence (optimism of stupidity, paralysis of the will) ends US hegemony and the neo-Right project, and that the clear skies over Delhi and Shanghai teach our bosses to savor a planet without fossil fuels...

....…It is obvious that the seal is not in space; it is not modified by the fact that it is moved. By contrast, the Mr. Buren who is “Sis” (and who isn't stupid) is someone who gives the utmost consideration to site. 5 Indeed, in the eyes of Buren, each place demands an absolutely singular installation...

..., was the form taken by her distress, the merciless whipping that is self-condemnation, as if in times as bizarre as these there were a right way and a wrong way that would have been clear to somebody else, as if in confronting such predicaments the hand of stupidity is ever far from guiding anyone. ( Roth 2004...

..., no high-speed trains, no normal pensions, nothing. . . . I don’t want people like you to govern my country . . . because you, with your appearance, your stupidity, your incompetence, bring shame over Russia and denigrate our great people.” Even from this cursory glimpse, it is clear that the two camps use...

... and representation turns into presentation. His answer is twofold: power takes over, since every decision appears to point towards a self-evident answer, embedded in the very necessity of the system of integral reality; and the subject is turned into a stupid zombie that continues to live as if it were free even...

... was more attended than Obama's (Garber 2019 ). Trump ( 2013 ) is prone to fake apologies like this one: “Trump Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest-and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault.” The lack of a record of apologies allows one to read...

... of repression was able to equip stupid prejudices with clever rationales (which is in itself a hallmark of political modernism). Unlike their elected superiors, the new technocrats were neither fools nor bigots; they did not believe that a couple of card-carrying party members preaching Marx to preschoolers...