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A 2010 book in this language argues that we have moved beyond a disciplinary society to an achievement society, whose oppressive positivity spreads the title malaise. This language was used to write Psychopolitics and The Burnout Society by Korean theorist Byung-Chul Han. A book in this language describes Reason as a “chemical agent” that seeks to control nature and reads Marquis de Sade’s Juliette. A book in this language argues that art’s radical character has undergone (*) “repressive desublimation,” flattening a previously “two-dimensional” existence. The “culture industry” is theorized as a means of social control in a book written in this language, The Dialectic of (10[1])Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. For 10 points, name this language used by critical theorists of the Frankfurt School. ■END■

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