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As Sartre said of a certain vulgar Marxism, we are impelled to take the real content of a thought or an act as a mere appearance, and having dissolved this particular in a universal (here economic interest), we take satisfaction in believing we have reduced appearance to truth.
— May 05, 2021 08:23AM
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Ever since Gramsci's notion of hegemony entailing an equal & opposite resistance of the oppressed, anyone who relates the so-called grand narrative of Western domination is also likely to subvert it by invoking “weapons of the weak,” or some such local discourse of cultural defiance. This is a no-lose strategy, since the two characterizations in some combination will cover any and every historical eventuality.
— May 06, 2021 01:18AM
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As polyphonic or heteroglossic as the monograph may be, one does not find a Japanese voice in a Sioux Indian ethnography.
In order for the categories to be contested at all, there must be a common system of intelligibility. The differences at issue always entail some relationship. As Cassierer says in another context, “an awareness of a difference is an awareness of a connection.
— May 05, 2021 05:29AM
In order for the categories to be contested at all, there must be a common system of intelligibility. The differences at issue always entail some relationship. As Cassierer says in another context, “an awareness of a difference is an awareness of a connection.
Ipsa
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In Adam (Smith)’s Fall, Sinned We All:
...the genesis of Economics was the economics of Genesis...The real reason Economics is dismal is that it is the science of the post-lapsarian condition. And the Economic Man inhabiting page one of (any) General Principles of Economics textbook is Adam.
I LOVE MARSHALL SAHLINS !!!!!!!!
— May 05, 2021 04:13AM
...the genesis of Economics was the economics of Genesis...The real reason Economics is dismal is that it is the science of the post-lapsarian condition. And the Economic Man inhabiting page one of (any) General Principles of Economics textbook is Adam.
I LOVE MARSHALL SAHLINS !!!!!!!!
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You're so ready to join us in the Capital group if you're already reading this. Just skip the accounting parts of Capital like everyone else (including David Harvey), the exciting parts are the philosophy, methods of inquiry, geography, history, etc etc! :)
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Kevin wrote: "You're so ready to join us in the Capital group if you're already reading this. Just skip the accounting parts of Capital like everyone else (including David Harvey), the exciting parts are the phi..."aha, thanks Kevin, i do plan on skipping the accounting parts as well! But I do think I will only be able to get around Capital by early next year. Looking forward!
