Change of tone might be my fault. I am a new mod after all. And as a post-modern neomarxist I'm somewhere between the devouring mother and Stalin in t...
Well I finished the book today. Breaking it down point by point and then expanding on each of them on here was very time consuming. I'll write up chap...
I think this is the first time I've wholeheartedly agreed with you on something. Commenting so that we both have it on the record. I tried having sex ...
Why would we need a clear definition of living or nonliving to study evolution? Regardless: At some point you'll probably come to the realization that...
In this thread: people draw purely semantic distinctions which capture nothing relevant about evolution, despite a wealth of literature being availabl...
Been busy with other abstract things competing for my attention. I wanted to leave this here for future comment. What would Debord think of messages l...
It's deductively valid to conclude that no ticket will win when you have evaluated whether each and every ticket wins or does not win, and all evaluat...
I think it's resolved by breaking it into 2 cases. The cases being A) where someone knows that a given selection is the entire selection of tickets an...
P(at least one ticket wins) = 1 P(any particular ticket does not win)=very high Keep multiplying 'very highs' together, they're all <1, and you end up...
@"Banno",@"Sam26" I think it's likely that animal minds are capable of similar activity and directed mind-states to humans in a lot of respects. Anima...
Difficult to interpret without an appeal to the logic of dialectic. We have growth internalising its own negation (privation) and expanding while/due ...
Debord's fleshing out this generalised commodification again - tracing out the transformation of the proletarian into the consumer. I think it's worth...
I don't think this is saying much new, other than giving a preliminary account of the qualitative nature of commodities. They're 'everywhere' and 'dee...
That's certainly an element of it. If it was constrained to social forces - a statement of some genealogical-historical method - the ideas that 'conce...
It's one of the Marxian left's chief causes of circular firing lines. Rather, it names the space for unsubstantiated and endless theoretical disagreem...
A friend of mine pointed out something pretty cool. It might be possible to take the commodification of everything as a methodological posit and look ...
@"StreetlightX" Do you have any opinions on dialectical materialism? I'm not particularly keen on it and shunted @"Baden" the way of an analytical Mar...
This is picking up on the financialization of capital as prefigured in 40. There's a sketch from one of the episodes of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (...
I think 'unconscious' there is figurative rather than Freudian, so I'm saved some effort. I think this is just noting the historical progression from ...
Oh. There's this thing in dialectical materialism called the dialectic of quality and quantity. It's in Engels and those in Lenin's heritage. Anti-dia...
Succinctly put. I appreciated how neatly condensed this is: Just in case, diamat=dialectical materialism or 'materialist dialectics', in my view it's ...
The dialectical contrast of qualitative and quantitative is bollocks of the first degree in my book. Change of forms of energy are far more complicate...
The explosive growth of mathematical and computer science in the broad sense goes along with this, and the expansive data gathering and analysis that ...
How does the spectacle render the world absent? The world in terms of its social practices doesn't 'naturally' have to consist predominantly of a disc...
Next chapter, I think I won't just restrict myself to schizophrenic ranting, there'll also be some good old fashioned philosophical buggery. I really ...
I deleted your most recent attempt Count. Seems I'm the only mod on and active. I'm quoting your OP here so you can work on it some more before broach...
To my mind it's asking to discuss times in the bible where Matthew compared Jesus to Moses and a comparison of the two as mythical figures; and possib...
In the interest of transparency, this is the OP that was deleted a few times: That's the entire post. The reason it was deleted wasn't because the ide...
Your OP was Site guidelines say: Don't start a new discussion unless you are: a) Genuinely interested in the topic you've begun and are willing to eng...
Chapter 1 Summary. What is the spectacle? The spectacle is a name of various moments of social processes aggregated into one self sustaining dynamic. ...
(31->34) part of the negation of 'who am i? i work as x' is done through demanding 'what do i own?' as a response. Consumers as a name of humankind. T...
Social media again. People put in effort to make stuff on it, but then it becomes owned upon upload (a precondition for public expression) and commodi...
The spectacle is a process of abstraction, it can be seen in its ur-form with the fetishism of commodities understood in the precise sense of objects ...
I like to think that Debord would've agreed that social media is a huge concretisation of the spectacle, this makes me think I'm actually understandin...
'central task' in mine is translated as 'primary work' - less ambiguous, makes it talking about the job that we have. This seems to be suggesting that...
Social media and internet shopping have created some progress in this regard too. Amazon, Tesco Online etc, you don't have to even see the custodians ...
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