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The commentariat in the UK are being trusted because they say ...

2026-10-12T08:24:42Z

The commentariat in the UK are being trusted because they say “Russia, Putin Did It” - in actuality brexit was in the interests of the USA and the local upper classes. It doesn’t matter as the necessary damage has been done to the EU and Europe…. #politics

So the most interesting thng here is the fading away of the once ...

2026-10-08T10:19:58Z

So the most interesting thng here is the fading away of the once fashionable philosophers, some i regret most, actually, in the spectacle lts fashion-relics, its fashion... and thus predictable. #philosophy...

to make a Debordian point, which should be central to any ...

2026-10-08T10:12:48Z

to make a Debordian point, which should be central to any understanding of philosophy - Fashion is the image commodity taken to its logical conclusion - and i am looking forward to the end of the current fashion for religion in #philosophy...

i have a deep, certain distrust towards reality. This has to do ...

2026-10-06T09:40:35Z

i have a deep, certain distrust towards reality. This has to do with my experiences living in the west. I believe that the most extreme ideology that exists is the one that reality to be real. #philosophy #politics

RE: https://social.devilplan.com/@luci/117389367859793842 What we ...

2026-10-05T17:18:02Z

RE: https://social.devilplan.com/@luci/117389367859793842

What we exist within is the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie". you might not understand that on the basis of the Rocker quote below
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Let us describe Heidegger’s life? the answer can be described ...

2026-09-20T22:11:05Z

Let us describe Heidegger’s life? the answer can be described in a single sentence: he was born, he thought, he was a Nazi, he died. And all the rest is absolute nonsense. #philosophy

some confusion that the hard crisis of climate change and the ...

2026-09-11T08:08:29Z

some confusion that the hard crisis of climate change and the soft crisis of AI are the same thing… it is to be expected that the media does not understand the existential crisis of climate change but surely you understand what AI as automation and spectacle is? #philosophy #politics

such a horrible culture - Israeli airstrikes hit multiple targets ...

2026-09-07T13:25:23Z

such a horrible culture - Israeli airstrikes hit multiple targets across southern Lebanon overnight. An attack on a residential building in Kfar Rumman killed at least 10, including an infant. #politics #philosophy

So after a lot of words spread over decades on/and\ of Deleuze ...

2026-09-07T10:35:02Z

So after a lot of words spread over decades on/and\ of Deleuze and Guattari machines i walk into this: "...difference between simple machines in the Greek and Cartesian sense or even the industrial revolution [cut] the 'machines' (but why good call them by the same name?) of the new technologies... (Uncut version in Hominescence P63 Serres #philosophy

t's Late Summer, a late flourish of 25 degrees. Of the three ...

2026-09-06T13:02:53Z

t's Late Summer, a late flourish of 25 degrees. Of the three prefixes Late, Post and Open... each of which encodes the concept it prefixes,,, only late is useful as ij summer, capitalism, late work as opposed to all the reactionary uses of post and open... it's especially interesting as late, in the uses I can think of here has ver been successfully appropriated by reactionary ideologues #philosophy

the silence of the universe is because we live in solar system ...

2026-08-30T16:52:18Z

the silence of the universe is because we live in solar system without any god(s), for most solar systems have god(s) and consequently there is no sentience, reason or desire in them. For these things actually require that there are no god(s) merely finitude and death rather than eternity… #philosophy

it's a matter of Capital, War and illiberalism ...

2026-08-25T08:01:29Z

it's a matter of Capital, War and illiberalism (neo-managerialism) - as a westerner your political task is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. It is not to criticise Iran. China. Russia, Cuba or North Korea. If you live in the US or one of its satellite nations, then you live in the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on earth, and that’s where your focus belongs. #politics #philosophy

the open letter in the guardian is a betrayal on multiple levels; ...

2026-08-23T11:52:18Z

the open letter in the guardian is a betrayal on multiple levels; because some if the the the signatories were the westerners who taught us how to analyze western imperialism and colonialism, and now, at the clearest moment of imperialist contradiction and murderous violence they’re telling us that we must equivocate and support colonialism... #politics #philosophy

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2026-08-22T08:42:16Z

europe is indefensible (cesaire) #philosophy

207 Ideas improve. The meaning of words plays a role in that ...

2026-08-21T16:02:56Z

207
Ideas improve. The meaning of words plays a role in that improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress depends on it. It sticks close to an author’s phrasing, exploits his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with the right one. (Debord) Nothing truer has ever been said. #philosophy

i speak in praise of plagiarism, as any admirer of Guy Debord ...

2026-08-18T22:48:38Z

i speak in praise of plagiarism, as any admirer of Guy Debord should and must #philosophy

How much of the current partial critique of #Deleuze and Guattari ...

2026-08-09T10:29:57Z

How much of the current partial critique of #Deleuze and Guattari that I see is because of their atheism? (See page 92 in What is Philosophy (english translation)) #philosophy

day 23, reading Munir Hachemi THE MULAI, a fine work of science ...

2026-07-23T16:02:17Z

day 23, reading Munir Hachemi THE MULAI, a fine work of science fiction, a particularly nice piece of experimental writing. I’m halfway through… a good book to read for someone who who has to be careful not to move too much… #lirerature #philosophy

the love of the mass media and the associated bourgeois culture ...

2026-07-23T09:06:08Z

the love of the mass media and the associated bourgeois culture as shown by the discourse on the Odyssey, remains within the spectacle and as such is irredeemable. No partial critique that does not condemn the objects produced such as the translated Odyssey will escape… #philosophy

there is a tendency to circulate excerpts from the mass media in ...

2026-07-22T07:30:57Z

there is a tendency to circulate excerpts from the mass media in the hope that it will be interpreted in a fashion that is critical fashion… this is not how the spectacle works. A partial critique is always just that…. #philosophy

This is not a bad thing: “ One of the effects of living with ...

2026-07-19T16:01:03Z

This is not a bad thing: “ One of the effects of living with electronic #information is that we live habitually in a state of #InformationOverload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” - #MarshallMcLuhan, 1967 #philosophy

"The feudal Princes will cause trouble: (Sun Tzu)what the ...

2026-07-18T11:00:33Z

"The feudal Princes will cause trouble: (Sun Tzu)what the analysis of #Techno-Feudalism offers is the reappropriation of the work of Sun-Tzu, retrieving the most influential book of strategy in the world from the neo-managerialists and reimagining it as a text supporting human liberation... #philosophy

the writer of that phrase blames the net, whch is as any halk(f) ...

2026-07-17T10:22:53Z

the writer of that phrase blames the net, whch is as any halk(f) decent reader of for example Deleuze, Serres and Marx (I am old-old and a person of the book after all) knows is nonsensical... #philosophy So I'll go further - to say "WE" like that is a gesture of pure reaction, evidence of their desire to be oppressed and to oppress others - for example me, ny partner, children and grandchildren... we is a word that needs some defintions editing away #philosophy

last year i read "We have lost not just our ability to ...

2026-07-17T10:13:42Z

last year i read "We have lost not just our ability to concentrate on deciphering long passages of written language...." Who is this {WE}? Two things then: the problem is that she has no understanding of the DIVISION OF LABOUR, any marxist would correct her misunderstanding of how people think and what a human skill is and then there is the even more terrible concept of the individualist {we}. We are made up of lines not individuals and have lost nothing #philosophy

I suppose that the book being based on the horror genreis honest ...

2026-07-15T13:46:27Z

I suppose that the book being based on the horror genreis honest in its failure, where i live all actual horror is human made, science and technology, made by science: the shadow-columns of H-Bombs, Gaza, the mass murder.. in the book its pre-science, and worse pre-political-economic, is it that which really haunts me? #philosophy #politics

i have discovered I can read again, the book isn't good, nor ...

2026-07-14T15:12:17Z

i have discovered I can read again, the book isn't good, nor is it bad, the core concept is good but is betrayed, and its a substantial betrayal by its love of HORROR. Neither the horror nor the identity politics adds anything to the story... #philosophy

Maria Corti… If only great writers existed, literature would be ...

2026-07-13T14:54:08Z

Maria Corti… If only great writers existed, literature would be a virgin forest in which dinosaurs roamed; ***but fortunately for literature, the great legion of minor writers exists and transforms the forest into a habitable place***, well furnished, suitable for five o’clock tea…” #philosophy

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2026-07-05T10:21:07Z

welcoming the anti-memetics department #philosophy

If you cannot identify the error(s) in the text you are reading ...

2026-06-23T10:36:06Z

If you cannot identify the error(s) in the text you are reading then you are not reading it properly and crucially the result should not satisfy you... #philosophy

All intelligent people will Become Malthusians as the Limits to ...

2026-06-21T11:55:02Z

All intelligent people will Become Malthusians as the Limits to Growth begin to really affect us… #politics #philosophy #degrowth hint it already has.

As AI shows - We are the first human beings who have become ...

2026-06-13T10:22:07Z

As AI shows - We are the first human beings who have become completely conscious of language" which implies that “thought finds itself for the first time, today, confronting by its task without any illusion and without any possible alibi…” ** …Without Alibi… (Agamben) #philosophy

echo and sound, tests on my cyborg heart, verbal signoff... the ...

2026-06-10T16:43:59Z

echo and sound, tests on my cyborg heart, verbal signoff... the new valve has anchored well in my aortic valve.... looks good sign off until next year, another six weeks and it will have stabilized... looks like i can choose how the cancer is removed now...radiotherapy or surgery... probably RT unless next weeks meeting persuedes me otherwise #philosophy

I am a determinist, and maintain that the reason for the ...

2026-06-10T13:46:57Z

I am a determinist, and maintain that the reason for the left-wing bias of humanties is because leftwing positions are objectively correct and right-wing and liberal positions are objectively mistaken and wrong. (The deniers of truth and facts are people like Trump, Starmer, Zionists, technobros and Israelis. These deniers of truth are awful... #philosophy

they askd why I was interested in a paper called "Deleuze et ...

2026-06-06T10:00:24Z

they askd why I was interested in a paper called "Deleuze et Cixous" amused to think it was 1978 and remaindered copies of Anti-Oedipus arrived in London, and a Cixous text arrived in 1986... explaining rationalising such long term commitments is nearly impossible... #philosophy

So finally after I am feeling recovered from the operation on the ...

2026-05-29T10:26:43Z

So finally after I am feeling recovered from the operation on the 24th of May. My new job of growing old and patienthood is as alienating as its possible to imagine. As of today I have five or six scheduled meetings in June... perhaps in july it will either be radiotherapy or surgery to remove the cancer in my right lung... by autumn i may have recovered... #alienation #philosophy

being a war criminal, whether alleged or proven should be ...

2026-05-28T07:54:00Z

being a war criminal, whether alleged or proven should be sufficient to remove them from the public sphere. #philosophy #politics A species as dangerous as humanity now is needs to apply a different logic to its behavior

there are more animals on earth than there are stars in the ...

2026-05-25T14:08:12Z

there are more animals on earth than there are stars in the galaxy - this is another reason why a natural contract is essential #philosophy

published rain — notes to myself 15 ...

2026-05-25T10:23:15Z

published rain — notes to myself 15 https://medium.com/p/rain-notes-to-myself-15-f5d2d895ddaf?source=social.tw enjoy #philosophy

explaining to someone why capital always means criminal. how can ...

2026-05-25T09:34:29Z

explaining to someone why capital always means criminal. how can you say that? War and Capital. i explained in the long form. #politics and #philosophy

not at all.

2026-05-24T22:22:55Z

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not at all.

one thing that makes a control society different from a ...

2026-05-22T09:52:02Z

one thing that makes a control society different from a disciplinary society, is that whilst the mode of production remains unchanged the paradigm of war changes, the emphasis on financialization #politics #philosophy \

desire has more than a thousand names, it has earned few of them. ...

2026-05-19T14:04:06Z

desire has more than a thousand names, it has earned few of them. One does not have to be a reader of Deleuze and Guattari to understand this. #philosophy

one aspect of the Kantian #philosophy / idea is that of being ...

2026-05-18T14:48:01Z

one aspect of the Kantian #philosophy / idea is that of being wary of priortising difference over universals, which needs to match (is that the right word?) the insights of recent philosophies of difference with a keen critical agenda aligned with the idea of difference... #philosophy

can the nature of critical acrtivity become adequate to the idea ...

2026-05-18T14:30:16Z

can the nature of critical acrtivity become adequate to the idea of crtique tself? In order to approach this questionm 2 preliminary questions must e addressed, what constitutes the natiure of critical activity? and what constitutes the idea of critique? This kantian understanding does not remain Kantian, still the idea of critical #philosophy haunts us, #kant

The moment of Kant I most ike is in the Critique of Pure Reason, ...

2026-05-18T14:23:26Z

The moment of Kant I most ike is in the Critique of Pure Reason, to support the claim that understands the claim of indifference in the preface. (Kant CPR in the preface - there are a number of translations around) #philosophy #kant

RE: https://me.dm/@stoicteacher/116594822738861312 the idea that ...

2026-05-18T10:08:46Z

RE: https://me.dm/@stoicteacher/116594822738861312

the idea that there is a seperation between school and life is dubious and unsustainable #philosophy

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"We learn not in school but in life." #stoicism #life #philosophy

because i have just read Boll' novel K. Blum, i realised ...

2026-05-18T10:04:05Z

because i have just read Boll' novel K. Blum, i realised thatof all the ideas that emerged from the USA one that needed early editing , at lease as much as any of Hitlers philosophers is General Semantics... #philosophy

reading the first part of Badiou’s Logic of Worlds this morning ...

2026-05-17T14:47:04Z

reading the first part of Badiou’s Logic of Worlds this morning i was surprised at how much more mistaken Badiou’s concept of Democratic Materialism was than the last time its simply that its does not survive the illiberal resolution of the crisis of neoliberalism #philosophy

a weekend which through the guardians " best novels" ...

2026-05-17T12:18:06Z

a weekend which through the guardians " best novels" list, obviously infantile and idiotic, shows again why so much of the mass media should end... the lack of reading offends me. #philosophy

The moral issues of our present are Israel and the wests ...

2026-05-08T11:21:38Z

The moral issues of our present are Israel and the wests maltreatment of Palestine, the militant growth (climate change if you prefer and the end of the west #politics #philosophy Batural
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sunday for @npub1g00…906l #philosophy ...

2026-05-03T16:50:26Z

sunday for Christopher Townson (npub1g00…906l) #philosophy

Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but 'the ...

2026-04-29T17:13:20Z

Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but 'the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement.its possible to delineate the uses and effects of an 'atheist machine' throughout Deleuze's work, demonstrating its central role in his philosophical achievements in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. We can brings Deleuze's philosophy into dialogue with recent advances in computational social simulation, specifically multi-agent artificial intelligence modelling. #philosophy

I think that we should accept settler-colonialism is a form of ...

2026-04-22T15:06:00Z

I think that we should accept settler-colonialism is a form of fascism, the specifics of the form, zionism, pre-war fascism and the present national-liberal fascism scarcely matter... #politics

to think means to experiment and problematise (Deleueze foucault ...

2026-04-19T10:53:13Z

to think means to experiment and problematise (Deleueze foucault 105) #philosophy

Is AI ever going to become good at anything, really good at ...

2026-04-19T08:59:43Z

Is AI ever going to become good at anything, really good at anything? No. Never. Ever. Even if a 100,000 writers on social media or a thousand technophiles sing its praises or even 100 ethicists write AI ethics about it, it won’t become good. Because it’s already not good. #philosophy, #politics And the philosophical rule is absolute << what is not good never becomes good>>

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2026-04-18T08:45:00Z

ah well enough, this threatens to be too technical… #philosophy

the core understanding, which us how you can recognize whether a ...

2026-04-18T08:43:56Z

the core understanding, which us how you can recognize whether a person understands a philosophical line of thought, is contained in the answer to the philosophical question >> what is wrong with the philosophy? what are the errors? << “true analytical philosophy…” >> exposes what is with the thinking immediately… because the errors in philosophers like Hegel, Deleuze, Irigaray, Serres and if you like Marx are very important… #philosophy

there is a way of thinking that the phrase “true analytic ...

2026-04-18T08:34:39Z

there is a way of thinking that the phrase “true analytic philosophy has never been tried” is a relatively harmless variant, equivalent to the other reactionary statements true capitalism true liberalism true libertarianism and so on. This level of unthinking and the avoidance of thinking is both tragic and comic. Zizek had a nice phrase he used some decades ago “actually existing communism”, material, historical refusing the stupidity of idealism, insisting on facing the real #philosophy

the point marxists like me are making about liberalism is that in ...

2026-04-17T17:28:06Z

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the point marxists like me are making about liberalism is that in many forms it has been the dominant ideology since Hobbes, nrly four hundred years. It cannot be idealistically restructured to avoid the horrors of late capitalism, technocracy, techno-feudalism, the ongoing flow of capital uphill. In the UK one of the finest liberal institutions ever created: the NHS has been under attack from liberalism for 50 yrs

What I am rejecting is the idea that liberalism, in the ...

2026-04-17T17:18:23Z

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What I am rejecting is the idea that liberalism, in the idealistic form you are proposing is capable of resisting the liberalism / illiberalism of late capitalism: including of course the >> technocracy, managerialism << the point is that these things are the actual heart of contemporary liberalism. Not the idealism that you are proposing as possible and realistic alternatives to the present liberalism…

your describing a pure idealism that has never actually existed ...

2026-04-17T16:25:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…0vym
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your describing a pure idealism that has never actually existed and crucially never been believed in by most liberal figures.

given that it is a debased form of western liberalism that is ...

2026-04-16T08:32:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…2wgm
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given that it is a debased form of western liberalism that is murdering people in the middle-east, debased in the sense that we ignore its actual murderous behaviour - and as a consequence know that rights are meaningless... no

It's an ungeographical space, geophilosophical, a space that ...

2026-04-13T15:38:37Z

It's an ungeographical space, geophilosophical, a space that shows the end of the ancient contract, that was visable on the earth a wrioting with manual tools... where now this new contract is being written differently, from a different perspective, a new contractual arrangement. What can we say of this new contract? That its signed between two partners, us and the environment. A different scale of course... If we don't accept the contract, we will cease to exist. #philosophy #politics

"The use of #philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that ...

2026-04-07T12:46:41Z

"The use of #philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful." (Deleuze)

a natural contract has an advantage over its ancestor the social ...

2026-04-02T17:27:40Z

a natural contract has an advantage over its ancestor the social contract, because its written on the world, no longer as it once was through neolithic farming or the industrial revolution, for the natural contract is written in the negative, in our destroying of the biosphere, carbin, ozone holes, mass extinction... we will have to rewrite this into a natural contract we can live with... #philosophy #science #politics

sadly, its clear that Michel Serres did not understand the ...

2026-04-01T09:33:36Z

sadly, its clear that Michel Serres did not understand the relationship between War and Capital, considering that Dumezil's "ideological structure of the three functions" was weakening, this is not the case, for War is essential to the continuation of capital... #philosophy #politics

reading this, Francois Jullien The philosophy of living... ...

2026-03-24T09:19:56Z

reading this, Francois Jullien The philosophy of living... #philosophy

in case you didn’t know already i have little respect for ...

2026-03-22T14:03:20Z

in case you didn’t know already i have little respect for people using the words; best, greatest, genius and synonyms in relation to literary texts (or anything else for that matter) … you should never use such ludicrous concepts about writing of any kind… it is never appropriate, mere ideology #philosophy

what is good in the 21st C is defined by the Empire... from the ...

2026-03-19T17:32:28Z

what is good in the 21st C is defined by the Empire... from the colour of the sky, the meaning of AI to genocide... that is the nature of state morality. #philosophy state morality is always reactionary

and then nobody has mentioned the obvious difference between ...

2026-03-16T13:09:01Z

and then nobody has mentioned the obvious difference between Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer and Habermas - which is that the German state wanted to kill them and did succeed in killing Benjamin... whereas Habermas became a liberal (denier of genocide...) #philosophy

these days because of my failing body, it's going to be old ...

2026-03-16T13:05:39Z

these days because of my failing body, it's going to be old old in the middle of the year, so i'm sort of disabled, though i'd never say that, being just old... i confess to feeling that the mind-body split is a description of aging... i am be default anti-cartesian but still my aging recognises the split as fact... #philosophy

Agamben: A country was attacked without any real reason and by ...

2026-03-13T11:30:44Z

Agamben: A country was attacked without any real reason and by treachery, while negotiations were being feigned, and its spiritual leader was assassinated. The European community—or that illegitimate organization bearing this name—not only failed to condemn an open violation of international law, committed by two countries that seem to have lost all sense of self and all responsibility, but also ordered the Iranian people to cease defending themselves. #politics #philosophy true

there are words, concepts that are so ideologically loaded, that ...

2026-03-09T10:32:31Z

there are words, concepts that are so ideologically loaded, that nobody, (whether human or our machines,) should use them… our seeming addiction to these ideological concepts, the assemblages they identify, are precisely why we should edit them from our vocabularlies… #philosophy and #politics and #writing

In the society of the spectacle images like words have mostly ...

2026-03-07T11:43:44Z

In the society of the spectacle images like words have mostly been drained of actuality and meaning... a picture of bombs exploding in Tel Aviv, Tehran, a desert somewhere.. we cannot know if they are actual explosions... We may hope that Iran will be victorius and survive, but we also know the spectacle was drained of truth before we were born. #philosophy #politics

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2026-03-04T00:23:39Z

religion and religious ideologies are a terrible idea #philosophy

my slow reading of Kojeve;s Introduction to the reading of ...

2026-03-02T14:57:54Z

my slow reading of Kojeve;s Introduction to the reading of Hegel,especially his outline of the master/slave dialectic is exquiste reading as the bombs and missiles fly from the US and Israel into Iran...#philosophy #politics

critiques of the philosophy of the right to kill, necessary ...

2026-03-01T13:57:25Z

critiques of the philosophy of the right to kill, necessary reading in wartime during an imperial war, late capitalist fascism is a very unpleasant world to live in... #politics #philosophy

One of the mistaken philosophers in the history of modern ...

2026-02-19T08:40:08Z

One of the mistaken philosophers in the history of modern philosophy is Levinas... the ideologies he subscribed to ruined his ability to think... it is in fact worse than this #philosophy

On the contrary inalienable rights cannot exist. Whilst workers ...

2026-02-11T09:19:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…558y
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On the contrary inalienable rights cannot exist. Whilst workers control can. They are entirely separate issues....

there are theories that come to nothing much, not enough anyway. ...

2026-02-04T15:29:01Z

there are theories that come to nothing much, not enough anyway. Such things are frequently outside of science and philosophjy, but not always. They are often talked and written about but they are never clear, consistant and well considered. They are often pointless and ultimately obscure... I am sure you can name a new of these yourself. #philosophy

I am enjoying reading about the rightwing marxist and stalinist ...

2026-02-02T10:45:06Z

I am enjoying reading about the rightwing marxist and stalinist who helped established the EU… sadly the EU has not turned out as well as it could have … #philosophy

So Lefebvre and Lenin then “ There is no reason not to quote ...

2026-01-30T11:31:51Z

So Lefebvre and Lenin then
“ There is no reason not to quote Lenin again ‘The beginning - the most most simple, ordinary, mass, immediate "Being”: the single commodity (Sein in political economy). The analysis of it as a social relation. A double analysis, deductive and inductive - logical and historical…“ …Henri Lefebvre quoting from Lenin’s On the Question of Dialectics.
#marxism #spectacle #being #dialectics everyday life #politics #philosophy

i am enjoying reading the Boris Groys book on Alexandrfe ...

2026-01-29T13:26:51Z

i am enjoying reading the Boris Groys book on Alexandrfe Kojeve... it's strange how my overiding impression is that he could only write and think like that in the period he lived in 1902-1968 in neoliberalism it would have been impossible. #poitics #philosophy

so your idealism, as in the ideal liberalism is ok, but a ...

2026-01-22T22:26:56Z

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so your idealism, as in the ideal liberalism is ok, but a socialist/communism is not?

Reparations, certainly that is what communism requires, and for ...

2026-01-22T17:33:35Z

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Reparations, certainly that is what communism requires, and for the unpaid labour of women and the people of the south, the redistribution of wealth downwards... along with a Natural Contract..all of which is authoritarian

- everything is political, which can be interpreted as follows ...

2026-01-21T12:36:53Z

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- everything is political, which can be interpreted as follows Capitalism does not begin with production, patriarchy with domesic labour, slavery with exploitation, but with the prior distribution of power between classes determined by war, violent appropriation and force. (Lazzarato on D&G) All of which re necessary for capital and liberalism to exist, hence the impossibility of the partial critique of postcapitalism..

It assumes that capitalism and liberal democracy can be remade ...

2026-01-21T12:31:17Z

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It assumes that capitalism and liberal democracy can be remade into something that is less destructive - however any such reconstruction will be less liberal and more authoritarian simply because of the iron lawas of capitalism....

I'm giving a copy of Butler's Gender TRouble to my ...

2026-01-21T11:48:48Z

I'm giving a copy of Butler's Gender TRouble to my granddaughter who is reading it for her A Level course. She will be the third person to read this copy of the book - me, my dai=ghter and her child.. I supply a rubber with he book so she can remove any pencil underlinings... #philosophy #micropolitics....

this interests me “ rightwing liberals are alienist” Which ...

2026-01-20T09:29:17Z

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this interests me “ rightwing liberals are alienist” Which presumes that left-liberals are not … Because its clear that within late capitalism anything can be commodified.

which is to say that inalienable rightd is an idealist fiction. ...

2026-01-19T10:41:16Z

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which is to say that inalienable rightd is an idealist fiction. Liberalism may claim such human rights exist, but in actuality they do not - as colonialism, slavery and racism shows on a daily basis. Acxtual Liberalism and capitalism are inseperable and have been since the 17th C.... #philosophy #politics

the sadness of social media is that there is both moral panics ...

2026-01-19T09:13:11Z

the sadness of social media is that there is both moral panics and fashion, at the moment on the one side AI and on the other Tooze... everything passes #philosophy #media

that is true, however its an idealism which bears no relationship ...

2026-01-17T16:41:48Z

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that is true, however its an idealism which bears no relationship to actually existing liberalism. We should always ask liberals of the left and right where there criticisms are of actually existing liberals, in the UK we refer to recent liberals like: Blair, Starmer, Thatcher, Cameron etcetera…

perhaps it depemds on how you understand liberalism, from hobbes ...

2026-01-17T16:26:23Z

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perhaps it depemds on how you understand liberalism, from hobbes to the present, and with its history of colonialism, slavery, class, concentration and centralization of production, power and destruction... actually existing liberalism is always authoritarian

one of the points where Lazzarato's conceptual pparatus fails ...

2026-01-17T16:15:00Z

one of the points where Lazzarato's conceptual pparatus fails is in his understanding of "neoliberalism has nothing liberal about it" (Lazzarato) ... #philosophy

The concept of suicide is best understood as referring not to ...

2026-01-14T13:17:15Z

The concept of suicide is best understood as referring not to humanity but to this intolerable civilisation.. #philosophy
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bulletin de philosophies medieval 67 #philosophy Original post: ...

2026-01-14T13:13:07Z

bulletin de philosophies medieval 67 #philosophy

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if: <Theory is ethical violence of the intangible> as Chus ...

2026-01-08T16:14:44Z

if: <Theory is ethical violence of the intangible> as Chus Pato says then what is theory that is not violent? #philosophy

the corruption of language, as the marxist #philosophy of ...

2026-01-02T13:39:56Z

the corruption of language, as the marxist #philosophy of language shows: we are supposed to say a country (the usa) that bombed 3 continents and 12 nations in 2025 and blackmailed 30 others is … "isolationist"

I have never liked Emmanuel Levinas as much as others have. I ...

2025-12-31T14:49:20Z

I have never liked Emmanuel Levinas as much as others have. I reject in its entirity his Talmudic readings and his concern for a Jewish “universal ethics.” As for the versions of Israel and Zioniam... simply hideous #philosophy

What i particularly like about Brecht's julius Ceasar is the ...

2025-12-29T09:47:33Z

What i particularly like about Brecht's julius Ceasar is the slavery and money, the discussion of enslavement and how this enabled the Roman empire... #philosophy