Jul 11, 2025
The Cultural Shaping of the Decline in Intelligence: Aesthetics of Conformity and the Manufacture of Mediocrity – Part 2
Any attempt to locate intelligence within the cultural topography of late capitalist societies must proceed through the conceptual disarticulation of intelligence from the merely cognitive or epistemic and its subsequent reinsertion into the domain of aesthetic, affective, and symbolic production. Photo by BERK OZDEMIR on Pexels.com Intelligence, in this extended sense, is not reducible to IQ…
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