December 2011
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Economic Uncanny Valley →
adamroan:
Bitcoin. You may have heard of it: a so-called virtual peer-to-peer currency system. It’s been billed alternately as the savior of the world from the hands of the banking system, the scourge of world governments, a monumental waste of energy resources, a privacy nightmare, and just plain…
This reminds me of Steve Shaviro’s essay on virtual economies. Unfortunately, the...
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“In the first three or four years of life certain impressions become fixed and...”
– Freud - Leonardo Da Vinci: A Memory of His Childhood, pg. 39.
As if you needed a reason to read Winnicott.
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Trieb.
I have come across several people lately (most recently Mark Solms) berating the translators of Freud for using the word ‘instinct’ instead of ‘drive’ to translate Trieb. Though I can’t recall for certain where I read this (I’m tempted to say it was either Abraham Brill or Alan Bance), this “mistranslation” is due to the fact that the English word...
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Three Billion Perverts.
Ah, well what do you know! Almost the entirety (the section “Pédo-Philie” is censored) of Three Billion Perverts: The Grand Encyclopedia of Homosexuality is contained here. The password is corydon. Unfortunately, the text is in French, and there’s no OCR that can be copied and pasted into Google Translate.
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“I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by...”
– In 1935, Sigmund Freud wrote to a mother who had asked him to treat her son’s homosexuality, a letter that would later become famous. (via thejazzpoet)
If Michele Bachmann is elected for president, the world will need another Grande Encyclopédie des Homosexualités.
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“For [Guattari], analytic work should not make reference to universals or to...”
– Dosse - Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives, pg. 393
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“The dérive (with its flow of acts, its gestures, its strolls, its encounters)...”
– Ivan Chtcheglov, excerpt from a 1963 letter to Michèle Bernstein and Guy Debord, reprinted in Internationale Situationniste #9, p. 38
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concrete rules, differences & equivalences...:... →
driftwork:
“… The aim of a theory1 is to provide a method whereby objects of a given nature are to be described. The aim is achieved by ordering the given object, together with any other realizable objects that are amenable to such treatment, as plane (or plane-derivate) in a semiotic which, to comply with Pr 1, must be a scientific semiotic (DF 41), That plane of the scientific semiotic that is...
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“The argument that [Sraffa] assumes linearity and horizontal supply curves and...”
– Barkley Rosser
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“Compared to Sraffa, Marx’s attempt and failure to make the system (and his...”
– Lyotard - Libidinal Economy, pg. 152
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Occupy Economics, by Mike Beggs →
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“Just as Van Gogh began painting portraits before undertaking landscapes, so too...”
– Dosse - Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives, pg. 108
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“If the task of philosophy is to break the domination of words over the human...”
– Frege, Preface to the Begriffsschrift
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Obliterating Kojève →
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Keynes on Das Kapital.
Keynes always insisted that he had never read Marx, but this excerpt from a letter to George Bernard Shaw (December 2, 1934) seems to imply otherwise. Unfortunately, however, due to a grammatical ambiguity (“if I do”) we cannot be certain of this.
As for my view of Marx, I said nothing in that article except to accuse you and Stalin of being still satisfied with his view of the...
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“We are past the time of generally applicable forms.”
– Novalis, Fragment 2167 