June 2012
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thenewinquiry:
As with today’s social-media free laborers — another set of semi-self-aware spies — their ordinary-schmuck amateurism turns out to be a difference-making advantage that allows them to achieve what professionals can’t. Because they work without knowing what they are working on, they can produce untainted results and unexpected innovations without demanding a proprietary...
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On the Continent, hanging, shooting and transportation is the order of the day....
– Karl Marx, from his New York Tribune article of March 15, 1853 (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)
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This physical object, gold or silver in its crude state, becomes, immediately on...
– Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1 (via revjalen)
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Human beings purchase the increase in their power with estrangement from that...
– Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, (Stanford University Press, 2002), p.6 (via itsworsethanthat)
Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit!...
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It is true that the different spheres of production constantly tend towards...
– Marx, Capital, Volume I, Penguin, p. 476. (via arielnietzsche)
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The following experience will be familiar: if one is in love, or just intensely...
– Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street (via thesoviette)
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Everything comes to pass as though my power to reach the world and my power to...
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (via dialoghost)
Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits...
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language, translation by Hugh J. Silverman
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this is the 43rd consecutive hour awake.
endtimes.
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The continuity of the ego is a myth. A man is an atom that perpetually breaks up...
– Bertolt Brecht, 1926 (via thesoviette)
spiritandteeth:
Ray Brassier: ‘How to Train an Animal that Makes Inferences: Sellars on Rules and Regularities’
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[[MORE]]i am wearing he-man pajama pants.
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Dialectics for kids →
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Every worker knows that it is impossible to make two completely equal objects....
– Leon Trotsky, The ABC of Materialist Dialectics (via marxmaterialized)