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The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation. Vaneigem, Raoul

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Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934) is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines (Hainaut, Belgium). After studying romance philology at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version.

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