aerdil posted:Yesterday I was lounging at a cafe on the couch reading some Barthes sipping on a cappuccino. This older dude, probably in his 60s, walks in and sits down next to me with his own cappuccino and pulls out the books he's reading. Barthes and Zizek. He had disgustingly long fingernails and the musk of an hoarder about him. He told me he was an artist and majored in philosophy himself long ago. It was like peeking into my own sad future.
or you could work in advertising, your choice. maybe, if you work very hard, you can become a lawyer
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fullcommunism
not gonna lie they're fairly different and the similarity that i noticed could just be an artifact of my lack of musical breadth, but i hope you enjoy them anyway
TheIneff posted:what's a good book on U.S./Philippines
there's a good essay in benedict anderson's "the spectre of comparisons" dealing with it, plus another one that puts it into the context of broader transnational political enitities.
he also has this essay, which briefly touches on it http://newleftreview.org/I/169/benedict-anderson-cacique-democracy-and-the-philippines-origins-and-dreams which is savaged here (sometimes unfairly) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00472339280000191
haven't gone through any full books specifically, though anderson cites a bunch
I hope it's masao. he sounds so much like him. so that's not what I'm reading, but it's what he's reading
tpaine posted:also you should know masao would never be caught ranting in public, if you had truly seen his videos. nardo
he definitely did not seem like he spent a lot of time talking to other people. i think he has evolved
tpaine posted:is everyone seeing the ownage i'm posting tonight? this is some hot fire.
yeah
fleights posted:Themselves posted:I think its possible to be anti-capitalist and not Marxist, but it doesn't mean in society what I might mean by it. Not understanding or adhering 100% to a Marxist philosophical position/tradition is different than refusing to read him or ever research people who've studied what capitalism is and how it functions from a critical angle.
reactionaries are anti-capitalist in that they attack the global neoliberal order from a libertarian or nationalistic ideological world. all the major right wing parties in europe from front national to UKIP look towards russia for inspiration, orban basically holds up putin as an example of patriotic christian rule... anyways the point is that we should support the liberal, egalitarian european project against the rising right wing and not side with reactionaries because they are anti-capitalist or against amerikkka in aesthetics
finally we have an antideutsch poster.
c_man posted:is there anything that antideutchers have in common that aren't "radical left" and "pro-israel"?
seasonal affective disorder
everyone read these this guy is cool:
http://www.jasonwmoore.com/Essays.html
capitalism as world-ecology!!