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by bshepard 5y ago
"I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it; I could s
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by bshepard 5y ago
Naturalism is a metaphysical position; a second order claim about what kind of phenomena count as real. It is different than a methodological committment to only considering a certain set of causal relations -- this methodological committme
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by bshepard 5y ago
"If, moreover, naturalism is correct (however implausible that is), and if consciousness is then an essentially material phenomenon, then there is no reason to believe that our minds, having evolved purely through natural selection, co
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by bshepard 5y ago
(1) All of these practices depend on cultivating virtues that are contradictory to industrialization/capitalization: just as lyric poetry is. (2) It is intriguing to consider commercial music as an industrial utilization of lyric poetr
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by bshepard 5y ago
Just because a phenomenon can't be industrialized doesn't mean it doesn't exist; you can't industrialize lyric poetry, for example.
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by bshepard 5y ago
"If we think of the world's future, we always mean the place it will get to if it keeps going as we see it going now and it doesn't occur to us that it is not going in a straight line but in a curve & that its direction i
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by bshepard 5y ago
The creation of 15 million bolos; each allowing a different form of life, eliminating nonconsensual labor, war, and ecocide. ( https://libcom.org/library/pm-bolobolo )
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by bshepard 5y ago
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Cha
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by bshepard 5y ago
Here, from one of the founders of Ordoliberalism, is a consideration that is useful to keep in mind when reflecting on intellectual property: "Anbieter und Nachfrager suchen stets - wo immer es möglich ist - Konkurrenz zu vermeiden und
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by bshepard 5y ago
"In 1994 the artists Komar & Melamid commissioned a public-research polling firm to conduct The People’s Choice, the first poll on artistic taste in the United States. Individuals were asked approximately 100 questions on a variety
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by bshepard 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturkampf
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The Good News About Cooperative Platforms(ponydigest.substack.com)
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by bshepard 6y ago
"Everyone has to stand before a picture as before a prince, waiting to see whether it will speak and what it will say to him; and, as with the prince, so he himself must not address it, for then he would hear only himself. It follows
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by bshepard 6y ago
Yes, very profound point, completely agree.
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by bshepard 6y ago
For recorded history, the subcontinent has been politically unified for -- at most -- 250 years. There are many different nations inside the "Republic of India." Some of these people are already seeking independence ( https:/
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by bshepard 6y ago
"According to Marcia Tucker, The New Museum’s director, "‘Bad’ Painting” is an ironic title for good painting, which is characterized by deformation of the figure, a mixture of art-historical and non-art resources, and fantastic a
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by bshepard 6y ago
Here's a place to start: http://goodcat.news/cage-grh.html
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by bshepard 6y ago
The 1983 utopian fantasy "Bolo'Bolo" proposes an extremely workable strategy for a better ordering of the human species: bolos -- that is, micronational formations of 300-500 people. I've been trying for the last ten yea
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by bshepard 7y ago
“In Plato, art is mystification because there is the heaven of Ideas; but in the earthly domain all glorification of the earth is true as soon as it is realized. Let men attach value to words, forms, colors, mathematical theorems, physical
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by bshepard 8y ago
A guide to having fun with the wake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpeq91hK1Gk
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by bshepard 8y ago
It's interesting how biographers and scholars have closeted, seemingly successfully, William James, even after the revelation of the closeting of his brother should've alerted writers to the queer content of both James' work,
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by bshepard 8y ago
If anyone wants to dive deeper into Van Gogh, his letters are all online and translated into English: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/
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by bshepard 8y ago
How much do consumers pay in Bezos tax for goods on Amazon? i.e, if the site simply let consumers buy from Chinese manufacturers (which, in the end, is what much of Amazon is) without the fee to the owners of the marketplace (i.e, "Bez
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by bshepard 8y ago
Some US history books that are relatively unknown in the US: -Ann Douglas "Terrible Honesty" (Study of artists, Black and nonblack in New York/Manhattan in the 20s) -James W. Douglass "JFK & the Unspeakable" -Wa
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by bshepard 8y ago
Languages change over time, and the gender neutral "they" is becoming widely used to refer to specific people.
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by bshepard 8y ago
It's because "richness" creates a pathologically competitive social system that encourages this sort of destruction activity in order to get the token that conveys value.
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by bshepard 8y ago
Every single history I've read about slavery indicates that the middle passage was orders of magnitude larger and more intense than pre-modern slave systems. To the first comment: our world is changing. We are leaving the world system
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by bshepard 8y ago
This is a fairly big abstraction, but we live in a world system that's based on discounting unseen externalities; sweeping the hurt under the rug, so to speak. The world-system started with the theft of the American continent and perpe
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by bshepard 8y ago
Nor does the US democracy place value on the lives of citizens in oppressed nationality groups; the so-called "prison system" of the US is a veiled concentration camp archipelago, the largest ever in human history.
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by bshepard 8y ago
Internal Family Systems therapy.

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