"....Anthropological Reversibility represents a conceptual pivot. Where previous essays diagnosed the techniques of silencing—the mechanisms by which modern institutions make dissent invisible—this work asks the deeper structural question: why do such systems require these elaborate suppression architectures at all? .... to identify a fundamental dependency that narratives of total control are designed to obscure. Systems of domination, no matter how technologically sophisticated or bureaucratically entrenched, operate only through continuous human inputs—belief in legitimacy, routine compliance, professional cooperation, and the daily reproduction of norms. These inputs are never fully guaranteed..." https://unbekoming.substac...
Anthropological Reversibility - Lies are Unbekoming
An Essay by Luc Lelièvre - A Theory of Human Agency Under Conditions of Apparent Total Control
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