(5) "As a psychologist, my work was to shrink people, literally, to reduce their problem, so to speak, in a way that made a colleague of mine suggest that psychology is the policeman of capitalism. Because our work is to keep you functioning, to keep you going. And grief gets in the way, you see. Therapy rooms are not designed for grieving. They’re designed for productivity. So it gets in the way. We don’t want you to slow down. We want you to keep going. And that becomes a problem."
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(6) "Postactivism is the fancy word, an arrangement or disarrangement of lines. It’s the discontinuity of confidence, of cartographic confidence, “we know where we’re going,” and I’ve been part of futurist communities who would tell you what’s going to happen in 50 years and I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s the flashing explosive excess that crystallizes into monstrous new patterns. It’s new effective leanings, it’s new unspeakable concepts, it’s new questions. Postactivism is the mark the world makes when it kicks back."