Bablu posted:lol i haven't read anything since december
damn you must have got cool christmas presents
Also I'm in the middle of Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin, who, according to the introduction, was older than god when the book was written. It is also a heterodox reanalysis of Things, specifically that everything sucks because Descartes. But also Descartes is only a product of his time: the European world needed an excuse to put an unbridgeable chasm between human experience and the concept of truth so that they could rationalize themselves out of mutual genocide wrt the Reformation. the zeal with which rationality was accepted poisoned the next 5 or so centuries. etc etc. the first 60 or 70 pages were useless, but once he gets going it's quite well done. still slow. don't spoil the ending.
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http://robinlea.com/pub/BruceCumings/the-korean-war/contents.html
that said his history of the Korean War is good and it establishes that the UN/US forces and the South Korean forces by far committed more atrocities.
aerdil posted:well with the amount i paid in taxes yesterday we better commit more atrocities otherwise what the fuck am i paying for
lol why would you pay taxes? enjoy your jobhaving.
HenryKrinkle posted:what do you guys think about Bruce Cumings' works on Korea?
http://robinlea.com/pub/BruceCumings/the-korean-war/contents.html
Cumings is cool. I agree with myself he's too harsh on North Korea but good luck getting published defending NK, he's the closest you can get.
http://japanfocus.org/-Christine-Hong/4100
you can see the influence jaspir puar's homonationalism has had on social science, plz read it if you're a liberal and accept homosexual rights
- an idiot
c_man posted:"the idea of human rights is an important foundation of imperialist foreign policy and by attacking the idea of human rights we will disable the imperialist machine"
- an idiot
it matters more to internal debates between people trying to overthrow the system. like some workers might think socialism is impossible because we'd "end up like north korea". and if you ask them why then some of them might point to 'human rights' things like 'they have no freedom of speech'. at which point it might be useful to critique human rights. of course, as a liberal, i love human rights, and obama, and justin trudeau.
HenryKrinkle posted:what do you guys think about Bruce Cumings' works on Korea?
http://robinlea.com/pub/BruceCumings/the-korean-war/contents.html
in B. R. Myers's book The Cleanest Race, Cumings is his 'too leftist/sympathetic' foil that he is constantly correcting so he can be the goldilocks between the left and US propaganda
c_man posted:i thought the context was that you were already trying to convince people that they wouldn't be eating dirt under socialism, by using good arguments.
picture a boot stomping a human face forever. that's socialism.
getfiscal posted:picture a boot stomping a human face forever. that's socialism.
if you say so
gyrofry posted:fringus, do you think 'the new sincerity' movement signifies an emerging possibility of escape from ironic detached post-marxian end of history/no-alternativism that might secure the existance of socialism for our people and a future for white children?
Short answer yes with an if; long answer no with a but.
gyrofry posted:fringus, do you think 'the new sincerity' movement signifies an emerging possibility of escape from ironic detached post-marxian end of history/no-alternativism that might secure the existance of socialism for our people and a future for white children?
re: socialism, in fiction at least it's doubtful, as nothing the major authors (wallace, eggers, franzen) of 'the new sincerity' write about seems to imply any non-reactionary social/structural change- quite the opposite, really. you have oft-clumsy writing on race (not always, but frequently), a sympathy for the travails of the wealthy that doesn't actually take their dominance and iniquity into full account, and a condescending idealization of the proletariat within their bonds of undercompensated labor and oppressive cultural demands. I know there's a "new sincerity" in poetry that I don't know anything about, though.
re: the future for white children, yeah it's good to go.
aerdil posted:you had a best friend getfiscal?
i used to have a lot of friends. i stopped talking to most of them when i got sick. i still hang out with my best friend once every few months. we lived together for a while (until fall 2012). there are a few other people i see once in a while.
Lysenko posted:my roommate has jodi dean books. what do i do!?
just remember they are more afraid of you than you are of them.
swirlsofhistory posted:How do you make friends? Is sincerity or lying better for making friends? What kind of friends make the best friends?