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The conditions of possibility of that extraodinary technical development are political. cf Marx, Capital vol 1
by DiscourseFan 2y ago
The conditions of possibility of that extraodinary technical development are political. cf Marx, Capital vol 1
- kazinator 2y agoThe conditions may be, but the development itself isn't, and the prior work which that development references and depends on likewise isn't (and had political conditions of its own quite possibly unrelated to the present ones).
- DiscourseFan 2y agoIt is still shrouded by the spectre of the political
- kazinator 2y agoEven if so, that's a different claim from the content being political.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoits not not-political
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- kazinator 2y agoSure, like Earl Gray tea is tinged by what you're listening to. It tastes a bit different if you have Beethoven on versus Miles Davis. Therefore, although tea obviously isn't musical, it's not non-musical, either.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoBoth the music and the tea are produced by and through market capitalism which depends on a particular configuration of the state to operate efficiently, ie politically. Its just the case that the most efficient configuration is also the one beyond politics.