![]() ![]() ![]() The algorithms of Facebook and other social networks guide us towards the refinement of our profiles, reducing friendship to the click of a button. We become friends with those who are already like us, and we keep each other comfortable rather than becoming different and more capable together. Under neoliberalism, friendship is a banal affair of private preferences: we hang out, we share hobbies, we make small talk. “Maybe the concept of friendship is already too colonized by liberalism and capitalism. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times it means surprising both the structure and oneself with something unexpected, new, and enabling.” ![]() resisting or transforming these systems is never straightforward, because it means resisting and transforming one’s own habits and desires. none of these modes of subjection dictate how exactly subjects will behave instead they generate tendencies or attractor points which pull subjects into predictable, stultifying orbits. rigid radicalism induces a hypervigilant search for mistakes and flaws, stifling the capacity for experimentation. in a different way, social media trains its subjects into perpetual performance of an online identity, and the anxious management of our profiles closes us of from other forms of connection. “The promise of happiness through consumption can make us chase after experiences or objects that deplete us even though they are pleasurable, closing of our capacity to be affected otherwise. ![]()
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