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MeatwadIsGod posted:Debt was awesome at painstakingly showing how the language of debt and that of morality has been intertwined for centuries, leading to some weird contradictions about how we're brought up to think about debt. And it pretty well annihilates the barter stories you get in economics class. Lanchester just wrote a piece called Ten Years On or something which you can find in the latest issue of the LRB.
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I'm almost ready to swear that Player of Games is a song by The Alan Parsons Project…
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Just ordered some insanely good books from Verso. Among them New Dark Age, Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital. Cheers for the heads up on the sale.
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I've only read 40 or so pages of New Dark Age by James Bridle but it owns bones. Get it if you can.
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Can't recommend Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome by Alexander Kluge enough to this thread. It is nominally about the human exodus into space after nuclear apocalypse, but Kluge is endlessly discursive and also very funny. Here's a sampler:  There's also spacelaw, a space-Kronstadt (or perhaps space-Spithead/Nore), space-Marxism and geoengineering and more.
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Cédric Durand "In the Crisis Cockpit" and Perry Anderson's "Situationism à l'Envers" in the NLR, and Tooze's abortive responses on his blog.
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:dissing tarkovsky like this.. man Maybe he's only seen the American version?
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Epic High Five posted:Both versions are bad lmao as compared to what? IMO it is far more humiliating to be treated like an infant by hollywood execs and directors.
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Chomskyan posted:Should I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the french revolution or is that a waste of time? Would you read it to know Carlyle or do you want to know more about the revolution?
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Chomskyan posted:Mostly the latter. I'm a bit put off by Carlyle since he was an open advocate for slavery, but I've heard his history is good I'd start with a modern primer (such as P. M. Jones') and work you way back to Carlyle and others.
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Cynicism isn't postmodern, although I agree Kundera is cheap kitsch.
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