The raison d’être of the left hemisphere is control and calculation. Importantly we are not exempt from being the objects of control and calculation in a culture in which all is controlled and calculated. We have the illusion of being in control, whereas there is in truth very little we can control; rather we are controlled, in what Adorno called die verwaltete Welt, the ‘administered world’, one where a new form of total control has taken root in the form of administration – a self-legitimising bureaucracy.310 It is not that bureaucrats are our new slave-masters; for they are themselves as
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