Atomised

Add water to the seven-inch Bowser figure’s reservoir on the back of his hair, and watch as ’fire’ – illuminated atomised vapour – shoots from his mouth.

Anglo-Saxon industrial modernity is inevitably more individualised/atomised (see Thatcher’s famous remarks about society), whereas the French public still sees itself as belonging to conflicting estates, which social conflict is grounded in.

Otherwise, the kids were left to complete work in atomised, surreal conditions.

As more and more libraries close – around 600 since 2010, shockingly – thousands of new parents lose the opportunity for a refuge that is sorely needed in our atomised society.

In today’s increasingly fragmented, atomised and narcissistic society, we have lost sight of the contributory and participatory principles on which our shared citizenship depends.

In sum these measures were seen as the re-transformation of proletarians within production from collective subject back into the atomised objects of capital.