Quotes About Economism

Véritable défi à toutes les formes d'économisme, l'ordre littéraire (etc.) qui s'est progressivement institué au terme d'un long et lent processus d'autonomisation se présente comme un monde économique renversé : ceux qui y entrent ont intérêt au désintéressement ; comme la prophétie, et spécialement la prophétie de malheur, qui

Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the festival and daily life, for transforming daily life into a site of desire and pleasure. The protesters were protesting against the fact, simultaneously obvious and ignored, that delight and joy, pleasure and desire, desert a society that is content with satisfaction—that is to say, catalogued, created needs that procure some particular object and evaporate in it.

It is heartening to realize that we are not nearly so stuck as it might at first appear. Cultures do change. Things that now seem normal—such as hyper-individualism and economism—can suddenly come to be seen as untenable and brought to an end with surprising quickness. These seismic changes occur as people free themselves from limiting beliefs and in the process cultivate a new worldview.