Critique of Dialectical Reason

Let's turn to your solution or part of your solution to this problem, which is existentialism.

In Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre attempts to explain various forms of collectivity from group infusion of a revolutionary crowd to what he calls the seriality of individuals that But that are estranged from one another.

And it's this concept of seriality, you argue, that elucidates the operation of capitalist market rule.

You write, quote, a series, for Sartre, is a loosely constituted collective of individuals aggregated around objects, structures, or practices to which all bear the same relation.

And so the series is a very useful way of thinking about that.

And Sartre doesn't talk about, like, the series or what he calls seriality as a kind of capitalist form of social agency.

But I tend to think that like what he's describing here and in general in the critique of dialectical reason is kind of a world where sociality and the forms of social interaction have been remade by capitalism, by a world of market dependence and proletarianization.

And people are thrown out as individuals, labor that is at once private and social, where you have to grow and get a job and you are working in a private factory.