Maw

Love reading 30 books each year and being entered into debate by people who have read an article and some news clippings about a subject

lmao

:up: Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis by John Smith

@"StreetlightX" which should I start first Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism or Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century

Everything Everywhere All At Once was just ok

Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu

hell yes

Ok

Has anyone been playing Elden Ring?

The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek

I'm a bit mixed on it. The thesis wasn't as compact as, say, Dienstag's Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit; it bounces around a lot between history ...

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

sounds good lemme know your thoughts

Giving you a big ole hug

I'm a pizza egalitarian. NY, Chicago, Detroit, all good to me. at its core it's buttery bread, tomato sauce and cheese. What's not to love.

It's 2022 why are people still whining about cancel culture, go outside, breath fresh air, watch a movie, go to the bar and grab a beer.

Who are you?

You know they are going on tour this year and next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0dXT-v-vY&list=OLAK5uy_mzuz2ClyQx2ykF4xhd5iKiFLWo3JuR3h4&index=7

That's very cool, yeah I love GY!BE, I saw them live in 2011 in Los Angeles - stood right in the front by Efrim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmgDLGpl9ME

On the Reproduction of Capitalism by Louis Althusser

Just incredible R.I.P. I remember the opening to Blade Runner blowing my teenage mind in the mid-2000s

I'll never look at a mirror the same way again

Écrits by Jacques Lacan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27CcmctcmVo

These people are dumb as hell and not worth the time

I guess in your mad scramble to see how you could cover your ass through a Wikipedia search to make what amounts to an immaterial point, you missed th...

Jews make up about 2.4% of the American population but there have been eight Jews on the Supreme Court. Hell, 33% of the Supreme Court was Jewish up u...

The apologists for the state of Israel are required to discuss the on-going apartheid in vague equivocations and abstractions. Even its common designa...

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

R.I.P. Monica Vitti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBq_MAGcEZs

This is outright insane

Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Freud

The Ego and The Id by Freud (rereading)

Just reading some more Hegel right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPpbOGnFgk RIP Ronnie

Time, Capitalism and Alienation. A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time by Jonathan Martineau

https://twitter.com/chevron/status/1347004338577813511 This is how you know January 6 could not be considered a seriously attempted coup

Very interesting, thanks for the concise review, I'll have to add them both to my list!

That said since Covid I've started a tradition of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai on NYE

I do love 2001 A Space Odyssey, but Barry Lyndon is Kubrick's best imo

Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality, and Advertising in Capitalist Society by W.F Haug

It's certainly imperfect, I had some mostly minor issues with it, but I thought Lana generally nailed the message she was going for, and it was a very...

Just saw Licorice Pizza, loved it Wrong

By the way I was curious to rediscover older reading list of mine from years back (obviously this thread only goes back to 2015) and was able to dig u...

Waves look good hope you got some body surfing in

That's irrelevant to the topic of the OP where there is no mention of socialism or any other economic alternatives to capitalism. We are discussing th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7jcjW8h230&list=PLX8Kp1BMO60C1pDBIBUNDPA5K8Wj2VB3W