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Halfway to kingdom come.

Roth, Bellow, Malamud: Jews in the US with a European intellectual upbringing conceal their superiority with absolute wit and self-reproach.

So far same content as The Burnout Society but better.

As we become more intensely subjectivized and our emotional acuity attenuated our means of communication and self understanding becomes increasingly objectified.

Should be researching ways in which AI effects labour process control, but its promise of being able to take over our correspondances really speaks to that rationalization of the inner life.

An incredible breadth and depth so far - love the idea of contracting chapters out to pastors. Keeps the debate alive. Shoutout 16th c. peasants as the clear OG's in this story. RIP the Renaissance we will always remember you.

A breathtaking experience both in hilarity and absolute excellence/modernity!! --- “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

6 pages everyday for my last 6 months in spain :')

Fantastic summations of social facts that have over the past 20 years slowy been percolating into the general consciousness. As an urban metropolitan new middle class consumer i will now continue to try and wed the bourgeoise and romantic ideals of self actualization and success

Lucid lucid ludic - Just as Harvey taught to his own students: sublate, I must teach myself

Dense dense dense - just as marx did to the concepts of his subject of capitalism: abstract, i must do with marx

As the supposedly eurosceptic but thoroughly pro internal market far right surges in the polls throughout Europe I wonder what of Lazslo's honeslty argued vision will remain standing.

Second read whilst travelling to Barcelona through the steppes of Aragon along the Ebro river

I usually enjoy reading game instructions but the author really overdid it with the anecdotes inserted here.

rereading for the reviewss

Looks to be an incredible read

Knausgaard just made me read 300 pages of psychoanalysis concerning the young Hitler on one of my only weeks off.

will she or wont she?

Locked in.

Very well done

Coherent and clear. Repetitive at times but lucid.

Foucault the foucault

The wandering Sebald, what a melancholic manifestation

Love missing the people that missed the greeks

Glory to tames isis

Forced to read Kafka incredibly slowly because i am reading it in germanic, even more cringe.