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ilinca iurascu

@ilinca.bsky.social

hoping the new Odyssey film finally brings us the Horkheimer&Adorno take

Passage from Horkheimer & Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: "Odysseus's idea, equally inimical to his death and to his happiness, shows awareness of this. He knows only two possibilities of escape. One he prescribes to his comrades. He plugs their ears with wax and orders them to row with all their might. Anyone who wishes to survive must not listen to the temptation of the irrecoverable... Society has always made sure that this was the case. Workers must look ahead with alert concentration and ignore anything which lies to one side. Thus the workers are made practical. The other possibility Odysseus chooses for himself, the landowner, who has others to work for him. He listens, but does so while bound helplessly to the mast, and the stronger the allurement grows the more tightly he has himself bound just as later the bourgeois denied themselves happiness the closer it drew to them with the increase in their own power. ..."

February 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

@jphillll.bsky.social

There is another way.

And we’re on the brink of a course change, of something dramatic, of either a nightmare or a better future. What’s most obvious at this moment is how we sit on the precipice of disaster, of being violently dragged back a hundred years or more by vicious, cruel fascists. The nightmare looms large, filled with mass deportations, the rich getting even richer, and the full erosion of democratic norms.
But, if you look closely, you’ll see the potential for a different, radical future. Millions of people are developing class consciousness in fits and starts, and are eager for action and even revolution. They may not know exactly what that means, but the yearning for change is breaking containment, is being articulated in the rage and desperation of millions of people. It manifests in little videos, graffiti, quiet acts reaching out toward a better world. Sometimes it bursts through in bigger acts of resistance, in people blocking ICE from seizing their neighbors, in mass uprisings against police murders.

January 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Alex

@alexstonefight.bsky.social

January 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM

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William Paris

@williammparis.bsky.social

If I were Rawls and saw 12 Angry Men in 1957 I’d probably have ended up writing A Theory of Justice too. The incarnation of deliberative democracy in Henry Fonda would be too strong to resist

November 20, 2024 at 2:18 AM

Alex

@alexstonefight.bsky.social

Lektüre

Das Cover des Buches "Platon: Meisterdenker der Antike" von Thomas Alexander Szlezák

November 17, 2024 at 2:17 PM

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Magnus Møller Ziegler

@magnusz.bsky.social

“Dear friend, Your letter has affected me both unpleasantly and pleasantly (see, I always move in the dialectical contradiction).”

(Marx to Kugelmann, 17 March 1868)

megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.…

London 17 March, 1868.

Lieber Freund,

Ihr Brief hat mich unangenehm u. angenehm (Sie sehn, ich bewege mich immer in dem dialektischen Widerspruch) afficirt.

January 24, 2024 at 10:54 PM

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Airea D. Matthews

@aireadee.bsky.social

What if we get off everything and just start reading?

November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM

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Gabe Gottlieb

@gabegottlieb.bsky.social

One of the great challenges in life is reading in bed and staying awake at the same time.

November 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM

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Robert Heinze

@rheinze.myatproto.social

Morgen im @ndaktuell.bsky.social, heute schon online: ich habe mir ein paar Gedanken über den kürzlich verstorbenen Fredric #Jameson gemacht und warum sein Werk uns gerade heute helfen kann:

Fredric Jameson: »Immer historisieren!«

Der kürzlich verstorbene Kulturtheoretiker Fredric Jameson weist in seinem Werk einen Ausweg aus der Blockade zwischen Marxismus und postmoderner Theorie. In Deutschland wurde das jedoch kaum wahrgeno...

www.nd-aktuell.de

November 15, 2024 at 4:15 PM