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from Reds by maurice isserman
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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amazing https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52240/is-the-quote-your-mind-is-software-program-it-your-body-is-a-shell-change-it
stack exchange discussion on where the misquote of peter thiel citing the eclipse phase tagline ""Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it."" comes from
September 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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this is a breathtaking act of epistemic violence https://cosmonautmag.com/2025/06/anarchism-in-theory-a-review-of-stop-thief-anarchism-and-philosophy/
Given her status as a former student of Derrida as well as her formative vocation as a Hegel scholar, it should come as no surprise that, in her latest English-language volume—Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy—Catherine Malabou answers this with an emphatic yes. More surprising, though, is the way that she effectively inverts it. Not only is it the case, she tells us, that anarchism needs philosophy. It is also the case that philosophy needs anarchism. At the political level, we’re today confronted by—on one side—a ‘de facto’ anarchism of the atomized individual, severed from the welfare state and increasingly susceptible to non-national transactions. And on the other, a ‘dawning’ anarchism of political action; of a renewed horizontalism that, after its debut in Seattle in ’99, went on to influence a fusillade of movements ranging from Occupy to the Gilets Jaunes to the ZAD (that is, zone à défendre). If the tragedy of our time has been the failure of these two impulses to converge, this failure has been mirrored in the domain of philosophy. Easily outstripping the inverse statism of classical anarchism, philosophers—and in particular, the scions of la pensee ’68—have both revealed the diffuse nature of power relations as well as challenged the primacy of the Greek arche. Where they have not succeeded is in overcoming the aporias of Aristotle’s Politics, which takes equality as its premise only to summarily justify state rule.
July 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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@danny one of my favorite gillis essays touches on this

https://humaniterations.net/2018/06/09/social-movements-and-the-sacrifice-of-epistemic-rationality
I’ve long argued that the better part of this vicious polarization is not the natural tendency of information technologies to create bubbles but the limited capacity or hamfisted means of our present technologies to give us agency in our social networks....
June 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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a common thing that graeber hit on again and again throughout his career was the connection between enclaves of artists who overlapped with radicals, how both were attracted to spaces where people did things differently

anyway im sad he never publicly […]

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What I really want to emphasize though is that none of this means that any of these spaces are any less real. We have a tendency to assume that, since capital and its attendant forms of value are so clearly dominant, then everything that happens in the world somehow partakes of its essence. We assume capitalism forms a total system, and that the only real significance of any apparent alternative is the role it plays in reproducing it. Myself, I feel this logic is deeply flawed—even disastrous. For two hundred years at least, artists and those drawn to them have created enclaves where it has been possible to experiment with forms of work, exchange, and production radically different from those promoted by capital. While they are not always self-consciously revolutionary, artistic circles have had a persistent tendency to overlap with revolutionary circles; presumably, precisely because these have been spaces where people can experiment with radically different, less alienated forms of life. The fact that all this is made possible by money percolating downwards from finance capital does not make such spaces “ultimately” a product of capitalism any more than the fact a privately owned factory uses state-supplied and regulated utilities and postal services, relies on police to protect its property and courts to enforce its contracts, makes the cars they turn out “ultimately” products of socialism.
March 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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[palo alto by malcom harris discourse]

my thoughts on the matter
October 8, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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[palo alto by malcom harris discourse]

it's extremely cool how despite the fact that more leftist intellectuals are alive today than ever before in history, people will write 700 pages of how capitalism is fucked only to end with "well someone else should […]

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October 8, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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[rant about new kapital edition]

dialectics is silly but so is this assertion given that proudhon cited hegel as a primary influence and was also a major influence on marx
September 15, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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[renewable energy is getting cheap]

I *suspect* that various forms of sabotage and protest might become more effective if replacing the targeted infrastructure is cheaper than repairing it

this is of course me purely drawing up a hypothetical economic […]

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September 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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kinda impressed by the diversity of thinkers that /r/neoliberal has as potential flairs
August 26, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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i firmly believe that one of the driving forces that lets good triumphing over evil in our world is that evil tends to be really fucking stupid
https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-eccentric-billionaire-patron-175735774.html
August 18, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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@arossp If you haven't I recomend Don Herzog's Poisoning the Mind of the Lower Orders, where he talks about the relative anonymity and conviviality that cities provided in early modernity and the reaction against it
July 17, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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glad to see the carson shoutout in this piece and a broader point made about compounding returns working *against* capitalism
https://strangematters.coop/technology-and-the-left-socialist-futurism/
July 13, 2024 at 12:17 AM