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Marx casually referring to Malthus as a "baboon" in the Grundrisse: "This baboon thereby implies that the increase of humanity is a purely natural process, which requires external restraints, checks, to prevent it from proceeding in geometrical progression."

Bertolt Brecht, 'Refugee Conversations', Dialogue 11

A beauty for the chapter on the Wagner essay, whose epigraph reads: “Horses are the survivors/of the age of heroes.” Courtesy of james.crane.

For Parapraxis, I wrote about Zionism as an antisemitism Antisemitism is not simply a hatred of jews but, as Adorno/Horkheimer wrote, a reactionary mode of thought, one which can appear in any number of constellations Zionism is that mode of thought parapraxismagazine.com/articles/eleme…

If I have to define dialectics, standing on one leg like Rabbi Hillel when asked about the nature of Judaism, then dialectic is, as Hegel formulated it in Phenomenology of Spirit, “simply watching.”

These 3 pieces by Pashukanis, translated into English for the first time, are a window into the rich world of Soviet legal theory. Thanks to the efforts of Rafael & Igor, a greater portion of this scholarship will finally be available to the English-speaking readership.

Long essay I wrote last summer trying to get a conceptual handle on the sexual form of appearance of capitalist social relations, now free to read online: pinko.online/pinko-3/sexual…

🆕on the reception and debate over the theoretical legacy of Karl Korsch in the Italian left of the 1960s and 70s medium.com/@nostrom0/giac…

Damn this Hegel got hands. Maybe if I read Gillian Rose I'll understand him better Damn this Gillian Rose got hands. Maybe if I read Hegel I'll understand her better Damn this Hegel got hands. Maybe if I read Gillian Rose I'll understand him better Damn this Gillian Rose got h

He was reading Search for a Method. He knows ball

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It’s impressive how contemporary Minima Moralia is. The fragments might as well be titled ‘Cringe’, ‘Transactional friends’, ‘Therapy speak’, ‘Gifted kids discourse’, ‘Polycule drama’. All his diagnoses are compelling if not immediately obviously true.

New recording: "Concept of Enlightenment" (6/8), led by james.crane - on the basic dialectical figure of DoE, Adorno & Horkheimer's speculative unity of Bilderverbot & determinate negation, & their plea for self-enlightened, revolutionary socialism! patreon.com/posts/concept-…

"Lenin must both have been at peace with existence and have embraced his hatred for the ruling order, his hatred's dialectical peace and 'godly indifference,' much more inwardly than many a mystical love." Walter Benjamin