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Yes, the great Obi-Wan Cutrone

So no @version

Yeah I guess. Its a silly question whether it is or isn’t a computer. Maybe I’m agnostic about it, its got to be healthy for your brain to put up limits. figure out what to be agnostic about, accepting you’ll be ignorant about things that are wasteful to think about. Coming to those...

You either think of it as a computer or you don’t. Its those people versus everyone else

I’d never so much as chuck an old timer down a curb! @thirdform

Dialectic of continuity and change

I think that’s true. But isn’t there a difference between picking up on something, having it change the way you think, versus absorbing an insight because you “already know” it, recognizing that it conforms in some way to your previous knowledge. Obviously making sense of anything requires prior...

Yeah, I get that sensation. Is it pompous though? To think that just because something is true and clicks, you must’ve somehow already “known” it. But then recently I was listening to this professor explain Kant and Hegel, saying that once you get through all the schematism and highly...

I have the sensation of not having access to knowledge or areas of my intellect unless I’m in a certain context or prompted by someone in conversation. Being asked questions, or far along a line of conversation, around certain types of people or in reference to some common object. But then alone...

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@thirdform put these two up as well since they were missing from the ‘Tube. Is it fair to call them Drex worship since they’re so early?

Adorno wrote about this kind of phenomena in 1960, with respect to a then emergent nostalgia for the 1920s: And about the ghost of a critical sting re: the exchange between @sus and @shakahislop about Arcade Fire (which stirred my own soul Gus) and also Corpsey on Green Day’s resignation:

Found it via “White Breaks Frankfurt” sub-label I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know

In his famous letter to Arnold Ruge, Marx says that “communism,” referring not to “some imagined, possible communism, but to communism as it actually exists in the teachings” of the living communists of his day, “is a dogmatic abstraction.” Marx and Engels called their book the “communist”...

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Will be sure to share my experiences and reactions, planning on taking notes. The theme of the convention is “Is there a Left in the 21st century?” Guru cult leader Chris Cutrone will also be presenting

I’ll be seeing Bill Ayers speak on Saturday in Chicago on a panel entitled “Why does Society have Politics?” at this year’s Platypus international convention