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i've had a copy in the downloads directory of my work laptop since the day i got hired, its very therapeutic

oh yeah, i was a middle coastal elite and got a humanities degree so i had some extra time

that’s easy, i read capital before i became a salaryman, out of dread and desperation of becoming a salaryman!

istg i’m not doing this on purpose, people keep coming after me

@marzenie there is no central claim its just a
comprehensive analysis of what economic ...
zeeb Today at 17:10
ok,, i am not sure. i am only on part 3 here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?
list=PLfqdvDnX3|bAGzd770mJOFyRI4Khz50U
i think willow would know a lot about this, @willow sorry if you do not want the ping. you do not have to respond.

zeeb Today at 17:51
and also didn't have nice things to say about the utilitarians of their day either
I want to see this
https://philpapers.org/rec/BREMCO-2cant
find the full thing
G. G. Brenkert, Marx's
Critique of Utilitarianism -
PhilPapers
willow Today at 17:55
here's an excerpt from capital lol
[capital pg 758-759 about bentham]

zeeb Today at 17:48
okay, thanks that changes things quite a bit. i just have to learn more about it to have a well informed take.
critique of the gotha programme
I want to check this now

willow Today at 17:55
here's an excerpt from capital lol
Classical political economy has always liked to conceive social capital as a fixed magnitude of a fixed degree of efficiency. But this prejudice was first established as a dogma by the arch-philistine, Jeremy
Bentham, that soberly pedantic and heavy-footed oracle of the 'common sense' of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie. so entham is among philosophers what Martin Tupper* is among poets.
Both could only have been manufactured in England.»
51. Bentham is a purely English pbenomenon.
Not even excepting our own
Christian Wolff,* in no time and in no country has the most
homespun manufacturer of commonplaces ever strutted about in so self-
satisfied a way. The principle of utility was no discovery made by Bentham, He simply reproduced in his dull way what Helvetius and other Frenchmen had said with wit and ingenuity in the eighteenth century. To know what is useful for a dog, one must investigate the nature of dogs. This nature is not
• Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a German philosopber and mathe-matician, a disciple of Leibniz. His philosophy was in fact a common-sense adaptation and watering down of Leibniz's ideas, and it beld the feld in
Germany from the 1730s until Kant's time.
• Martin Tupper (1810-89) was an English man of letters and poet. His ame in Victorian times rested on his Proverbial Philosophy (1838-67), a lons series of commonplace didactic moralizings in blank verse.
The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital 759
This dogma in fact renders the commonest phenomena of the production process, for instance its sudden expansions and con-actions, and even accumulation itself, absolutely incompreher sible.

zeeb Today at 17:55
thats hilarious, its scathing. they hate him.
Imao!

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converting naive analytical egoists to marxism, one at a time

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surely theres a bot

mhm laying down now <3

nah dw at all, i’ve just been out of the game too long and i pulled a hammy

oops fatigue

forgot to eat and the lights and sounds were scary

ain’t that the truth

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FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT

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my kitny is broken… wake up and kiss me damnit

i know i'm being that guy again but geuss says the same thing in that volume hehe

raymond geuss, "outside ethics" in outside ethics, pg 56
Adorno held that advanced societies in the modern world were closed, total institutions that were radically implicated in evil. In such societies, no action could be, as it were, fully innocent,39 and consequently demands that philosophy be connected with any kind of injunction to perform specific actions are themselves both forms of repression and an incitement to evil. Any attempt on the part of the individual to consider what he or she as an individual ought to do is a completely pointless exercise, and the only possibility remaining to us is to continue to reflect on the infinitely complex and subtle ways in which the falsity of the world as a whole poisons the possibilities of genuinely beneficial individual action and individual happiness. All that is left to us is a doomed attempt to maintain shreds of our subjectivity and spontaneity before they are finally crushed (like everything else), and to cultivate reflection so as to understand as fully as possible the complex structure of the evil in which we are necessarily implicated, no matter how we act. Beyond that we can have only a messianic hope in a total transformation of the society in which we live. This hope, however, would be for something that might come from outside the present and change our world utterly, that is, it is a hope for something that cannot even in principle be brought about by anything we could do.

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holy shit flames

man idfk either work

GAME CHANGER: Ctrl+Shift+Return still works to spawn the composer and publish a post, not just Ctrl+Return

which matters for me because Ctrl+Return is my dmenu equivalent

no matter what other disagreements we have, at least we can all come to consensus that hannah arendt sucked

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i often come back to thinking about this line from geuss when my bfs lapse

raymond geuss, outside ethics, "on the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusion", pg. 152
fear of instrumental reason. In all three of these respects it shows itself to be very similar to well-known properties of archaic religions. In contrast, philosophers who see themselves as the successors of Nietzsche and Foucault have no generalized fear of instrumental reason. They are willing to treat the liberal subject as one good among others, not as a fetish surrounded by a number of taboos. Finally, they have little interest in the metaphysical need except as an object of historical curiosity. This is the reason so many of our contemporaries believe that Nietzsche and Foucault are the true “progressive” heirs of the Enlightenment, whereas the representatives of the Critical Theory often run the risk, to modify a phrase of Nietzsche’s, of choking while remasticating theological absurdities, or, like Habermas, of becoming the conformist defenders of the liberal social order in which we are at the moment forced to live. It must be recognized that the final demise of religion in Western societies, so confidently predicted for the past two hundred fifty years, has not yet taken place, but there seems little reason to congratulate ourselves on this. If anything, religious belief in 2005 would have to be even more wilfully obscurantist than it was in 1805 because it requires active suppression of so much of humanity’s accumulated stock of knowledge and lacks the institutional support that was still intact in much of Europe in the nineteenth century. It is hard to see what the compensating benefits could be, even if one presupposes the widest and least utilitarian sense of “benefit.”

obviously here he means it in the directly religious context but the extensions are glaring enough

ohh trueee im stupid, i have it downloaded i just havent gotten around to it yet

for me later: somaesthetics: a disciplinary proposal, richard shusterman, 1999, the journal of aesthetics and art criticism v57 no3

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a girl in a school uniform with a blue tie is brushing her cheeks

Alt: a girl in a school uniform with a blue tie is brushing her cheeks can i have... the sauce?

it's true 😔

it's an easy jab from diderot but this one is funny

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/diderot/1769/conversation.htm
Denis Diderot, Conversation Between D'Alembert and Diderot
produces intestines; it is an animal. This animal moves, struggles, cries out; I hear its cries through the shell; it becomes covered with down; it sees. The weight of its head, shaking about, brings its beak constantly up against the inner wall of its prison; now the wall is broken; it comes out, it walks about, flies, grows angry, runs away, comes near again, complains, suffers, loves, desires, enjoys; it has the same affections as yourself, it performs the same actions. Are you going to assert with Descartes that it is a purely imitative machine? Little children will laugh at you, and philosophers will retort that if this be a machine then you, too, are a machine. If you admit that between the animal and yourself the difference is merely one of organisation, you will be showing good sense and reason, you will be honest;

cool free minecraft clone ayla showed me :D i didn't wanna install the flatpak for the client but my system package is so out of date i can't eat D: hahaha content.luanti.org/packages/wuz...

my life is so awesome rn. i'm playing voxelibre, listening to gillian rose, and drinking mint tea. we are so back

voxelibre waterfall :D
installed thru luanti client
listening to mourning becomes the law: philosophy and representation
just finished JM Bernstein "where is the cross?" which was super cool

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ohhh i thought you were playing mc with a texture pack, that's way cooler :>

what pack r u using? :o

!! i also really like "The poet doesn't mind about that, it doesn't affect his kind of truth."

our real opinion is not one in which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

Denis Diderot, Conversation Between D'Alembert and Diderot

although Tancock's is my favorite translation, i appreciate the different impressions given by alternative choices: "true" and "vacillated" from Stewart & Kemp and "feeling" and "habitually" from Johnston. also the: "Come, my friend, if you think it over well, you will find that in all things..."

real

wait there's alt text ! good puppy

kind of a rude thing to say about cinny tbh

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Skirmishes of an Untimely Man, § 48

btw after i saw david's skeet yesterday, the phrase "we immoralists" wouldn't stop bouncing around in my head, and that's how i knew it was going to be one of those nights bsky.app/profile/did:...

all my friends are so cool and talented