[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

Big cicerega vibes
https://youtu.be/VXoajiCbrJk

Good speculative fiction is rare. Rarer still is good speculative fiction that engages with the techbro shit without giving into it

#fiction #technology

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

A thread on Peanuts, the comic by Schulz, and mothers’ day


https://twitter.com/LukeEpplin/status/1127590120129990657

#literature #comics

#animals #biology

the capped research here is from 1920. Also notice how this was already observed in frogs.

edit: it wasn’t 1799, it was 1920.

as a tangential aside

The chemicals in the water did indeed turn the frogs gay! (well they trans’d their sexual)

Dr Hayes TED talk on Atrazine’s (pesticide) effect on frogs, small mammals and how it relates all the way to issues of medical and racial injustice in Amreeka.

#environment #science #behind_PopCulture

https://youtu.be/Hu0IXMTFY9Q