even qualitatively different use-values have a common element to them - value. no one is saying you can equate the distinct use-values, even if you multiply. no matter how many iPhones you accumulate, you can’t eat one. but you can sell it and use the equivalent amount of money to buy food.
there was a linux video i watched a while ago (ironically i can’t find it anymore) where this guy advocated for restructuring your home directory to be like
$ ls home
a b c d […] y z
okay so i know it was referenced in this book and this article… it DEFINITELY starts with an “a”… oh my god i know it just give me a sec uhhhhh… it was like a group of people and they sucked don’t even get me started on all the opinions i have… oh wait maybe it started with an “e”? i’ve almost got-
me, eyes bloodshot, rocking myself back and forth, praying for reprieve from consciousness: the expropriators will be expropriated, the expropriators will be expropriated, the ex-
i won’t follow through with this but i really want to start restricting again
my face and stomach and thighs have ballooned far beyond what is acceptable
why is everyone citing cohen tho lmfao. like it’s interesting to see the cutting edge of political theory convos, and this is about as radical as it gets in academia, but it’s still far too squishy. there’s no bite, and it’s telling that no one has used nietzsche on genealogical origins.
imagine if youtube’s content ID was oriented around being a sample database instead of the myopic stifling of human creativity. we could have paradise, but we’re trapped in california.
Art’s inescapable affirmative essence has become insufferable. Art must turn against itself, in opposition to its own concept, and thus become uncertain of itself right into its innermost fiber.