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Time to post spooky and monster-themed Marx quotes. My two favourites:
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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yall talkin bout ghosts? ghosts arrive from the past! a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back. ooOo spooky hauntology!
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Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianism of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost. They do no more than disavow the undeniable itself: a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back.
That’s Derrida in Specters of Marx (page 123). Hauntology is such a cool topic. I actually wrote a thing on climate change and hauntology, using a Marxist lens with a little help from Derrida if that’s interesting to you! Pretty spooky stuff.
quarantine kinda starting to lose its charm after 7 months
Watching the kanye interview
first things that came to mind
- It’s kind of sad to see a person having difficulty being coherent and being somewhat paranoid.
- In his way he is describing how capitalism is failing people and is evil (by example of the music industry). But he can’t seem to quite put it together or express it very well.
In his way he is describing how capitalism is failing people and is evil (by example of the music industry). But he can’t seem to quite put it together or express it very well.
fair, though that whole “put visionaries in charge” thing really smacks of the fashy hero cult to me. a lot of people turn to fascists (like kanye has with musk and trump) when faced with the horrors of capitalism, which i guess is why some of them call it “the third way”
i only skimmed through bits and pieces of the interview (saw the length and decided not to spend the equivalent runtime of a blade runner movie listening to this dude) but a few takeaways i had:
- this man has never really come to terms with his grief and trauma, like, at all. “I said, ‘God, deliver me from pain.’ And then he took my mom.” not to get all freudian but im pretty sure you can create a pretty accurate through line that connects all of his recent career trajectory starting with his mom’s death in 2007 and his inability to ever really properly process it and deal with it - even in his born again Christian phase. on second thought, definitely in his born again Christian phase.
- the brief parts where you get to see behind the yeezy “curtain” for a moment, strangely enough, were some of the most interesting parts. there’s a part where he straight up says he was paranoid about people in his own circle "Bob Marley"ing (poisoning?) him and how he fired his CFO… then he drops the thought 2 minutes later and starts talking about how he met the Haitian president.
- the whole thing was kind of exhausting and because it reminded me of many convos i’ve had with people close to me who are bipolar/schizophrenia, and even myself when i was at my most strung out, where totally abstract and unrelated thoughts just make perfect sense to you because the filter is like, gone (the sky is actually green and not blue? okay, sure, makes sense). saw someone basically say that rogan basically is just letting kanye interview himself here - no real pushback, which i guess is fine when he’s chilling celebs but also illustrates why people are pissed when he brings on reactionaries, because the man has no critical bone in his body. one of the first times he finally asks Kanye “why?” is when Kanye said he agreed to be medicated lol
the OAS is such a joke, their ‘assembly’ looks like a fucking 20-seater meeting room in an office building.
whats up with Venezuela voting in favor of that resolution tho, are OAS reps not actually appointed by their respective governments?
My brothers birthday was this weekend and we drank a handle of tequila with our ma n pa.
