Nothing stops this blog. Nothing.

To a ruthless criticism of all that exists.

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“In Marx’s analysis, social domination in capitalism does not, on its most fundamental level, consist in the domination of people by other people, but in the domination of people by abstract social structures that people themselves constitute. Marx sought to grasp this form of abstract, structural domination–which encompasses, and extends beyond, class domination–with his categories of the commodity and capital.” –Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination

Image: Leonardo Cremonini

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Just finally re dled tumblr after getting a new phone forever ago. Anyway I'm reading Postone now.

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@edwad how is this one?

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Hegel, Marx, and Lenin

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““The vulgar Marxist turns helplessly from left to right; helplessly, because facts which succeed one another in isolation necessarily seem to point sometimes in one direction and sometimes in the other, and because dialectical knowledge is needed in order to come to grips with their labyrinthine complexity.”

— Georg Lukacs

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Liebknecht and Luxemburg

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I've gone on a book binge again and ordered everything from Harold Bloom's book on Shakespeare to Jameson's 500 page book on the dialectic

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this doofus is so insufferable

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Latest eclectic half price book haul

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Here's my cat hiding behind my collected works of Lenin

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Career plans

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And the same goes for love - that is to say, what is it to find oneself passionately in love? Is it not a kind of permanent state of exception? All the proper balances of our daily life are disturbed, everything we do is colored by the underlying thought of "that:' The situation is properly "beyond Good and Evil": we feel a weird indifference towards our moral obligations with regard to our parents, children, friends - even if we continue to meet them, we do so in a mechanical way, in a mode of "as if"; everything pales into insignificance compared to our passionate attachment. In this sense, falling in love is like the blinding light that hit Saul/Paul on the road to Damascus: a kind of religious suspension of the Ethical, to use Kierkegaard's terms. An Absolute intervenes and derails the normal run of our affairs: it is not so much that the standard hierarchy of values is inverted, but, more radically, that another dimension enters the scene, a different level of being.

Slavoj Zizek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

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I've been laughing at this for 12 hours

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omw to get tuna sandwich

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new hot take

Zizek is actually a pretty engaging read

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Things I've been reading/thinking about:

Zizek's Less Than Nothing, psychoanalysis in general, the French Revolution, Napoleon, Tomsic's The Capitalist Unconscious, Capital and its various debates, and how I should probably start writing book reviews to get back in the habit of writing.

Mind never quiet and rarely focused. Here's to another cup of coffee

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Used bookstore haul from yesterday