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UNUSUALY COOL
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Bah Buildin Joey's brand


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hi
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Toronto
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as if anyone had the stomach to read capital anyways
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I ordered the Fr Kavanaugh book on christianity and consumer society, Jim Goad's redneck manifesto, logics of history by william sewell, first volume of william burroughs letters, and gavin mcginnis first book, all used.

I wanna add the piketty book because of all the rush hate but 25 for a single book is too much, i'll request it from the library---any of you guys read it yet?
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no but i'm sure it's terrible
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it sounds pretty dumb. im gonna try and read capital this summer with some other peeps at my uni
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HenryKrinkle posted:



ugh

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liberals shocked to discover that capitalism causes inequality
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i'm shocked, shocked! to see inequality rising after destroying the labor movement and social services!
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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c_man posted:

i'm shocked, shocked! to see inequality rising after destroying the labor movement and social services!

move over alan colmes

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when critically discussing the positive correlation between trade unions and paradisiacal ultra socialism, we should remember famous liberal and leading light of our age herbert marcuse's "other iron triangle" (click to fwiggen embiggen)
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penitent
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i'm reading the grundrisse
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i am reading the spring thunder & after by asish kumar roy & the transition to socialist economy by charles bettelheim
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deadken posted:

i'm reading the grundrisse

how are you finding that? have you read capital vol 1-3? im like a quarter through vol 2 >_<

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im reading like 5 things bc im a dumbass with no attention span
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same
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tardy on these heaters
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im reading agambens two new books from this and late last year and also thomas ligotti stuff
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been reading that jameson tome about postmodernism but fortunately jameson is pulling me through it
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tardy on these heaters
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have u guys seen spies like us w dan ankroyd n chevy chase, is funny af
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penitent
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Makeshift_Swahili posted:

deadken posted:

i'm reading the grundrisse

how are you finding that? have you read capital vol 1-3? im like a quarter through vol 2 >_<



only vol 1 w/ david harvey to hold my hand

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penitent
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i've just started really it's mostly marx dropping sick burns on proudhon and economists + preempting wittgenstein's private language argument
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three cups of deceit is constantly exciting and surprising because the excerpts of Mortenson's book raise the question of how the shit could a human being read any of this and believe it to be at all accurate, especially knowing the author was a doctor from America. Nonstop parade of throngs of happy beggar children and kind but cowardly local leaders who immediately elevate Mortenson to local god-king and incredible superhero impossible mountain-climbing feats and violent super-murderers, who also immediately elevate Mortenson to local god-king. I can't even imagine being a big enough liberal to buy this guy's line without being President Barack Hussein Obama.
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Kurdt
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deadken posted:

preempting wittgenstein's private language argument

say words abt dis

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objekt-a.tumblr.com
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HenryKrinkle posted:

Dees



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objekt-a.tumblr.com
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tardy on these heaters
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could be us but u playing
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gyrofry posted:

deadken posted:

preempting wittgenstein's private language argument

say words abt dis


deadken might have his own interpretation, but my sense is that the economists' Robinsonades run into the same problems Wittgenstein pointed out with following a rule in isolation. To follow a rule, a person has to grasp what a correct and incorrect application are. But an isolated individual lacks a way of telling whether he followed his own rule correctly because his only way of checking its correctness is appeal to his own private judgement: what feels right is right, and therefore nothing can really be right or wrong. Making up another rule to judge the first only pushes the problem further back as there's no better way to check the second than there was for the first. For there to be a rule to begin with, the application must be able to elicit a response from other people that establishes the standard for its correct use.

This poses a problem if you hold the view that individuals are innately commercially-minded, each one acting as if exchange value privately directed the use of their efforts before there was ever a society conditioned by generalized exchange value, before there was ever a public standard for rationally measuring one's efforts against another's. Economic Crusoe can't keep himself in line by nature -- his rule-governed activity is learned through public interaction with other people, and is for that reason historical.

"How could human behavior be described? Surely only by sketching the actions of a variety of humans, as they are all mixed up together. What determines our judgment, our concepts and reactions, is not what one man is doing now, an individual action, but the whole hurly-burly of human actions, the background against which we see any action."
LW, Zettel

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if anyone is interested in chemistry stuff i recently got access to scifinder and unlimited (i think) access to most acs journals. so if you can find an article you want i'll e-mail you it's pdf. good luck though cause even i can't read these papers worth a damn.

pm me because i forget every post i make within 5 minutes
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discipline posted:

Kill Anything That Moves is a pretty intense book and made me cry a lot IRL



it is pretty intense. have you read any of the rest of this "American Empire Project" series? are any of them any good? I read one of the chomsky books a long time ago, hegemony and survival, and one of the other ones looks like a "bwuhhh those Republicans!!!" book, so I'm wondering what I'm getting into here with the other ones

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does anyone have access to paleontology/paleobiology journals
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which ones?
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UNUSUALY COOL
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any of http://archive.sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/10/jun6-10_2/
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UNUSUALY COOL
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plus cretaceous research
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if i ever get access to more scientific journals i'll come back to this thread to let you all know. unfortunately now it's just chemistry but hopefully in the fall i'll get access to a lot of biology stuff again.
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conec posted:

i hate when kindle edition costs more than paperback :stress:

i was taking a final yesterday and its open book (you're fucked if you have to actually look things up, you're just supposed to bring it because there are statistical tables in the back that you need), and i had to take it in the online testing center cos it was an online class, long story short, I had the book on my kobo and the proctor said "you can't use that thing" and then asked me if I could pull up the book from "wherever you bought it" and I said, well, you ever heard of library genesis? and he nodded and that was that.