antigone ⋆˙⟡
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antigone ⋆˙⟡
@formkritik
Zum irren gehört eben so gut Verstand als zur Wahrheit. (she/her)




Kassel, Germany 🇩🇪


it straight up never occurs to some people that there are some ideas that you can't really understand as a layman because they're too complicated. and it would be a bad thing to pretend otherwise and only pass down warped, extremely simplified versions of those ideas!


Now that I’m three days out from being done with grad school (fr fr this time, no more extensions), my only real advice is: whenever you read anything, immediately write a 500 word summary of its argument with points about what you thought was useful.


the labor theory of value is a theory of how capitalism ultimately ascribes value to things. capitalism has a a dim view of art generally and does not treat creating art as socially necessary labor, which is why the starving artist archetype exists







