Help me teachers and readers of Marx. Need a late Marx reading to go along with 1844 “Estranged Labor” and the Manifesto. Max 40 pages! Maybe the Grundrisse. Context: Kant Third antinomy and groundwork, Phenomenology master-slave and absolute freedom-terror, Fanon, Marx, Adorno.
Listening to Mearsheimer talking about the Lancet’s report that since the early 1970s, US sanctions caused millions of deaths and led to ruin equivalent to the worst war. I suppose I could just google this, but was Cuba the model for this new regime of economic terrorism?
Today, Parliament has the chance to ban ninja swords - lethal weapons which have been used to kill on Britain's streets.
Families & communities across country face devastating knife crime. Up 80% since 2015.
I’m urging Tory Ministers to vote for our plan. No excuse not to act.
@whatisny I know little about bushes and trees,
I have met them in backyards and streets;
I shall become disreputable if I hang about them.
Yet to see them comforts me,
when I think of my life as snarled.
Was not knowledge first on trees?
-Charles Reznikoff
@AntonJaegermm "If the French cult of the death of the author is a mite hyperbolic, the English are pruriently obsessed with how often some two-bit sonneteer changed his socks." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v15/…
A page from ‘Prefaces’ by Jean Paul, from ‘Siebenkäs’, tr. A. Ewing.
“I have often read whole books on the subject of the Ego, & of printing, right through [...]”
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Super excited to be a respondent to this talk by Michael Burawoy on decolonizing sociological canons, Marxism, & Du Bois next Saturday, moderated by Yan Long at Berkeley & @fredyan at Tsinghua, joined by 3 original sociologists zooming from China. The event will be in English.
Adorno says, famously: "Beethoven's music is Hegelian philosophy: but at the same time it is truer than that philosophy." I feel my life would be fuller if I understood what that meant. Is there a tweet-sized explanation out there?
What’s the clearest articulation from Adorno of the idea that what sociologists call society is nothing other than Sohn-Rethel’s “social synthesis” of real abstraction?