#12721
UNUSUALY COOL
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HenryKrinkle posted:

jacobin published something good about Syria to appease us tankie plebs again



wow, i'm totally fooled!

#12722
Mike Nelson here.
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NoFreeWill posted:

fernando pessoa (a getfiscal type).

(chris farley voice) you son of a bitch

#12723
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what are you reading gf?
#12724
Mike Nelson here.
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i am reading a book about del close's ideas about comedy. the last book i read was althusser's lectures about machiavelli, which was really interesting.
#12725
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This girl is 11

If you clicked play you are a pedo
#12726
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is there any ebook site out there where i can get a pdf of italo calvino's invisible cities? i lost my Real Life copy of it and i want to read it agian... can anyone help your old pal joey out...
#12727
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i dont see anything on #bookz sorry
#12728
Mike Nelson here.
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NEOADMINISTRATOR posted:

is there any ebook site out there where i can get a pdf of italo calvino's invisible cities? i lost my Real Life copy of it and i want to read it agian... can anyone help your old pal joey out...

There is an unabridged audiobook available through Audible. Hope this helps.

#12729
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NEOADMINISTRATOR posted:

is there any ebook site out there where i can get a pdf of italo calvino's invisible cities? i lost my Real Life copy of it and i want to read it agian... can anyone help your old pal joey out...


its on libgen and aaaarg

#12730
UNUSUALY COOL
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getfiscal posted:

althusser's lectures about machiavelli,



#12731
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i'm reading 1000 years of nonlinear history it's pretty intresting materialist history with an emphasis on non-linear sytems of matter-energy. so far the coolest part is his comparison of the evolution of bones and exoskeletons to that of walled cities as incorporation of minerals
#12732
Poronto
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NoFreeWill posted:

i'm reading 1000 years of nonlinear history it's pretty intresting materialist history with an emphasis on non-linear sytems of matter-energy. so far the coolest part is his comparison of the evolution of bones and exoskeletons to that of walled cities as incorporation of minerals



this sounds retarded

#12733
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i'm reading paul cockshott
#12734
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i would live in full cockshottian socialism in like 2 seconds
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littlegreenpills posted:

this sounds retarded


i'll shott ur cock off in 2 second

#12736
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Bablu posted:

i'm reading paul cockshott



that guy used to post on revleft with all the retarded trots and fbi accounts. was always funny to watch him trying to swim in sewage water.

#12737
Occupied Aztlan
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i got banned from ismail's mapgame forum cuz he thought i was plotting to kill him
#12738
Mike Nelson here.
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Ismail is badass.
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NEOADMINISTRATOR posted:



http://en.bookfi.org/

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Urbandale posted:

i got banned from ismail's mapgame forum cuz he thought i was plotting to kill him



either aesculus or grid (dont recall which) on synirc #bop saw him begging for users for his albania game on 8chan (ive seen him on 420chan before too lmao)
http://www.dropbox.com/s/nltucbdpry1af0b/_pol_-_1920s_Albania_forum_game_-_2015-08-14_11.06.53.jpg?dl=0

e: also rumsod is getting back into forumgames?? http://blocgame.com/eregime/index.php

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#12741
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rumsod has been showing me some c00l stuff ismail did, apparently he edited a bunch of threads to make out hyper created bloc and rumsod stole it
http://z13.invisionfree.com/eRegime/index.php?showtopic=2212

mustang did you actually write that post or did ismail edit it, i just cant believe you were concerned about an influx from 4chan lowering the tone of discussion (upvote if he edited it, downvote if you're a way more sensitive person than i gave you credit for)

"Academic forums game politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."
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Iraff posted:

NEOADMINISTRATOR posted:


http://en.bookfi.org/



THANK YOU VERY MUCHO.

#12743
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*looks at either bop or the rhizzone* i give a fuck about this forum drama on a board for fake politics lol
#12744
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finished fanshen. peasant land reform seems tough
#12745
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reading The Concept of Socialist Law by Christine Sypnowich. socialist jurisprudence is cool for teh win
#12746
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this entire article lmao: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfred-w-mccoy/grandmaster-of-the-great-game_b_8139828.html

In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle geopolitical strategy that, if successful, might give Washington a fighting chance to extend its global hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. After six years of silent, sometimes secret preparations, the Obama White House has recently unveiled some bold diplomatic initiatives whose sum is nothing less than a tri-continental strategy to check Beijing’s rise. As these moves unfold, Obama is revealing himself as one of those rare grandmasters who appear every generation or two with an ability to go beyond mere foreign policy and play that ruthless global game called geopolitics.





#12747
Mike Nelson here.
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babyhueypnewton posted:

reading The Concept of Socialist Law by Christine Sypnowich. socialist jurisprudence is cool for teh win

I had her as a professor twice. I like that book but you will hate it with the fire of a thousand suns.

#12748
Dont Mess With Sucess
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reading Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich
#12749
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Dynamic patterns by Scott Kelso. seems like a really good intro to dynamical systems theory, which neuroscience/cognitive science is currently obsessed with

Also reading language, thought and other biological categories by Millikan. pinnacle f bourgeois phil of mind? That's for your to decide
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these nazi guys are weird.....

(from paul preston - spanish holocaust pg 494)
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getfiscal posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

reading The Concept of Socialist Law by Christine Sypnowich. socialist jurisprudence is cool for teh win

I had her as a professor twice. I like that book but you will hate it with the fire of a thousand suns.



you were mostly right. it wasn't marxist and consistently erased class

#12752
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can anyone recommend me some stuff to read about the 1956 Hungarian counterrevolution? Would be much appreciated.
#12753
YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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Erm, maybe try Pravda
#12754
Mike Nelson here.
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marimite posted:

can anyone recommend me some stuff to read about the 1956 Hungarian counterrevolution? Would be much appreciated.

just watch the grand budapest hotel

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A criticism of the Dialectical Biologist: The authors are very interested in undoing the Cartesian/mechanist view of natural selection, and they have a great scheme for doing so. However, they never seem to direct their attention towards any particular scientist or theorist who they might be able to tackle with their dialectical critique.

For example, one of the dominant theories of function, the etiological theory defended by Millikan, is so ripe to be crushed by Dialectical Truth. I mean etiological theories involve discerning the function of a biological feature based on "what it evolved to do", and this is exactly the kind of thing Levins and Lewontin disassemble with ease by showing that you can basically never establish neatly what a trait is "for"

I feel like the book would've been more influential if they'd directed their articles towards particular theories rather than just mechanist bourgeois science as a whole.
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lewontin goes in hard on dawkins in biology as ideology. one reason why dialectical biologist doesn't really go in on millikan is probably because it was published the year after her first book.
#12757
chickeon
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marimite posted:

can anyone recommend me some stuff to read about the 1956 Hungarian counterrevolution? Would be much appreciated.


1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary - Words and Weapons - , Janos Berecz

#12758
mt.real
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Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules" is really good imo. he looks at late capitalism as more or less fascist state capitalist bureaucracy that invades every detail of our lives and interactions with each other. the general idea isn't completely novel but some of the details or combinations might be, and it's just a cool read. and then for fun he threw in an appendix of a leftist teardown of The Dark Knight Rises. lol.

it has three parts, here are my little summaries.
1. Dead Zones of the Imagination: an Essay on Structural Stupidity.
there is no real border between the state and corporations, just one single oppressive structure that cooperates to make modern laws to further capital accumulation. this is Total Bureaucracy. in the end all bureaucracy is enforced by police: bureaucrats with weapons. within bureaucratic spaces, the pervasive threat of violence means that "interpretive labour" or "imaginative labour" -- the work of trying to understand the other, which already always falls on the oppressed in any power imbalance structure -- becomes useless, we are all "equal" (i.e. without identity) and can do nothing but dumbly follow or navigate preexisting rules.

2. Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit.
once the USSR was symbolically defeated and shit got real in labour organization (i.e. 68-75), the priorities of western states turned to the oppression of labour rather than creative transformative projects (which were led by soviets anyway, e.g. it was their idea to go to the moon). various cia bullshit things retrained us to stop using "immanent imagination" (hmm, i am imagining a thing i can do/make. i'm going to do/make it now.) and instead only use "transcendent imagination" (hmm, i want to fuck my little ponies / look at this cool fantasy world / lol video games). despite claims to the contrary US technological development is still and has been largely channeled through the state-controlled defence industry since that point, and the imperatives of the state+capital bureaucracy are always the purpose of modern technology. the internet is cool and all but as we know it is a defence project. real imagination struggles to exist inside Total Bureaucracy.

3. The Utopia of Rules, or Why We Really Love Bureaucracy After All
a. networks of communication (post systems, the internet) extend state coordinative power but can contain within them the potential of a foundation upon which projects of (immanent) imagination can be made. i.e. technologies that are rightly considered means to imaginative ends are good, "poetic technologies".

b. rationality is not an end, it is a means that has been elevated to an end, and this endless pursuit leads to ever-expanding desires for legal and social rules. when rationality is treated as an end in itself technologies become instead "bureaucratic technologies", technologies which exist only to further fixed structures, social control, and oppression (this reminds me of James C. Scott's "making legible")

c. the modern state is actually three things which have never existed together in the same state before. sovereignty (a monopoly on violence), administration (bureaucracy), and "heroic politics" - heroic in the sense of antiquity cultures' epic stories, essentially aristocratic theatrics, but seductive in that we love to tell stories. modern heroic fantasy demonstrates our collective fantasy of the anti-bureaucracy, but due to the transcendent imagination effect (see above), we decide we would never actually want to live there, we return to bureaucracy comforted by knowing it is the only real option.

d. bureaucracy contains and structures action in the real world just as rules of a game contain and structure play. games are "a utopia of rules", where the rules make sense, you know them, you have agency to navigate them, and you can win.

we end up feeding ourselves the fantasy of a correct bureaucratic structure which limits the capricious bad actions of power and restructures things in a "rational" way, but "it is just one further step to argue that true freedom is to live in an utterly predictable world that is free from freedom". in reality there is always a tension between the contradictions of desire for play and desire for containment. p.s. batman is a fascist!!! bye
#12759
mt.real
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he still thinks the colour revolutions were not cia ops though, despite clearly documenting a bunch of other even more insidious cia cultural and military ops. idgi.
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drwhat posted:

he still thinks the colour revolutions were not cia ops though, despite clearly documenting a bunch of other even more insidious cia cultural and military ops. idgi.



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