it's unfortunate for anti-wittgensteinian reasons: our houses are absolutely not in order and we desperately need philosophy to push onward, but instead it seems hopelessly committed to dragging us backwards with every intervention
“a great game you shouldn’t play” is about the inverse of my current approach to reading books and listening to music
“a horrible book that you should read”
There is a contradiction built into the very idea of art - art must be a failure because it tries to do something that can't be done with the means it is committed to trying to use (if it wishes to remain art).
marxist humanism always held a soft spot for me because i thought it most adequately captured what marx himself was after, in a “most frequently returned” theme sense
i much prefer the unpragmatic utopian childish anarchists to the ones that clearly don't have their heart in it at all, and might as well be anthropologist observers. vile cowards that speak of "them" rather than "us"
book that makes me so upset i have to reactivate to talk about it
like are you kidding me what is this sentence: "It is not a question of establishing comparisons or awful cultural supremacisms but rather defending the secular, non-normative nature of the anarchist framework."
so true bestie you can accomplish everything you want without contrasting at all and without evaluation in any way (which would be hierarchical and authoritarian)
begging and pleading radicals to read one page of nietzsche
"descriptive x is good but prescriptive x is bad"
check in next week for more fantastical absurdities from people who never got the memo about the naivete of the fact-value distinction
i know i could get putnam reference cred if i put "dichotomy", but that way of describing the collapse has always felt far too conservative and unambitious