1 | Althusser: Marxism and Philosophy

18/12/2020

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In our inaugural episode, we talk about Louis Althusser’s pathbreaking work on philosophy and Marxism from the 1960s. Targets of reckless slander include Sartre and post-structuralist theories of agency.

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References:

Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Translated by Ben Brewster (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001)

Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists. Translated by Ben Brewster, James H. Kavanagh, Thomas E. Lewis, Grahame Lock, and Warren Montag. Edited by Gregory Elliott (New York: Verso, 2011)

Louis Althusser, Machiavelli and Us. Translated by Gregory Elliott. Edited by François Matheron (New York: Verso, 2000)

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

On (mis)Interpretations of Nietzche

on Socialist Planning: engages with planning as thought of by “People’s republic of Walmart” etx, and puts it in context of Mises and Hayek’s challenge, coming out the other side with something beyond either

#economics #utopia #capitalism

https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/saint-burial/Content?oid=439236

Burial make good music.

#music

A Theory of Vibe, by Peli Grietzer — Glass Bead

Exactly what it says on the tin. Tries to develope a theory of 'vibe'/'style' by thinking of humans as bio-autoencoders. a starting point that provides a vocabulary to talk about this stuff.

http://www.glass-bead.org/article/a-theory-of-vibe/?lang=enview

[on how enquiry and presentation function in Capital; Heinrich has such an attractive empericism/positivism]

"Presentation, for Marx, is not something that happens arbitrarily. It is not a thing where you have subjective choice to do it otherwise. Presentation, as we already saw in the introduction, [here] has to present the categories in an order which reflects the relations of the economic conditions of a developed capitalist society.

in-so-far there is not only a 'good' or a 'bad' presentation like many [other] authors would say; For Marx there is really the much stronger case of a 'correct' or an 'in-correct' presentation. Presentation is not something of taste. Presentation has to do with Truth, with the way you want to capture the Object.

[and in this scenario] presentation is not strictly opposed to enquiry,[in fact, here] the main issue for inquiry is to find the correct presentation. "

- Micheal Heinrich, 00:47:30 - 00:50:10 "What do we really know about Critique of Political Economy’s method?", zoom lecture

this man is clearly doing something right.

https://johnganz.medium.com/a-conquerors-freedom-a-hegelian-interpretation-of-kanye-west-s-breakdown-851f41b30425

In which Pete Wolfendale (@deontologistics) -- in one of his more expansive fibrous-root thread systems -- writes about cultivating ignorance. A skillfull ignorance that can become an epistemic virtue in our time limited lives.

And he does it via not-reading the non-philosophy of (non?*) Laurelle.

*“gestalt” “mental model” formation in a dialogic process qua Socrates

#wolfendale #deontologistics #long #philosophy #ignorance



https://twitter.com/deontologistics/status/1344792219253932044?s=19

this is the introductory thread in his thread system about why he would not be reading Laurelle.

Related threads or blog posts by him will be posted on this channel IF they provide insight beyond Laurelle

happy valentine’s day from derrida

Death of a Revolutionary | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/15/death-of-a-revolutionary

#firestone #revolutionaries #feminism

le good alt-idol electro-metal-pop fusion has arrive

#music

https://youtu.be/NF3vJT__pzY