Institutional forms of routine
 

Crary 69: "There is a volatile and blurred interplay between the mundane layers of the everyday that have endured since premodernity and the gradual insinuation of institutionally generated forms of routine and monotony that contaminate or displace experiences with links to older patterns. The social and dialogical milieus of the fair or marketplace are displaced by shopping, the periodic occurrence of festival is replaced by commodified leisure time, and an endless sequence of specious needs are fabricated to debase and humiliate the simple acts of sharing through which human appetites had long been gratified or fulfilled."

> from Jonathan Crary's 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (2013)

> tagged with #human_behavior, #festival, #capitalism, #experience

> created October 8, 2025 at 11:28:28 AM


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