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Old 06-09-2022, 03:45 PM   #923 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jadis View Post
I love the 18th Brumaire and the other texts where he's in a more essayistic and aphoristic mode but the Capital is tough going for my humanities-addled brain, doubt I'll ever push myself through it from beginning to end.
The biggest thing for me is his repetitiveness but whenever he goes off on the imagery of capital's metamorphoses or sassy takedowns of classical economists, it's good ****.

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Originally Posted by TheBig3 View Post
She sort of does that. She didn't appear to have an editor (that did any work) she suffers from Academese, and she goes off on these semi- to completely unrelated tangents. Why John Cage comes up AT ALL is based on the title of one of his works?
Cage was a dedicated mycologist who had a capitalist critique or two himself, so it's not that surprising.
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