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I usprkos ideologijama rezignacije, usprkos tegobnim realnostima vladajućih struktura u našim društvima nadzora, ništa ne sprečava sofisticirane oblike kritičkog znanja, razrađene u osobitoj temporalnosti sveučilišta, da se izravno povežu s novim i složenim, krajnje sofisticiranim oblicima neslaganja koji se pojavljuju na ulicama.
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With this absurd parody, the Yes Men, archetypal figures of our society's capacity for consent, seem to have captured every detail of the modern control and consumption regime. Could one possibly imagine a better image of the style-conscious, tech-savvy, nomadic and hedonistic modern manager, connected directly into flows of information, able and compelled to respond to any fluctuation, but enjoying his life at the same time—profiting lavishly from his stock options, always up in the air between vocation and vacation, with unlimited pleasure and technological control right at his fingertips? True to its ethics of toleration, the corporate audience loved the textiles, the technologies, and the joke as well, at least until the entire conference was ridiculed in the press the next day. Did they even wince as images of the distant workers—fifteen-year-old Asian women on a factory floor, kids squatting at lathes—flashed up rapidly on the PowerPoint screen?
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