The Right to Dissatisfaction

Being dissatisfied is an excellent way of being with the reader. Dissatisfaction with the current state of things–which is to say, dissatisfaction with inequalities, with surveillance, with competitiveness, with what Cassie Thornton calls ‘individually-flavoured capitalism’, with barriers to collectivity, with the pandemic and its implications and effects, to give a short list–is a revolutionary binding force. We discover a coming together precisely in the things wanting to keep us apart. That i...