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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2h

the best representative of this kind of thought is Jürgen Habermas, his scholarly career really encapsulates the sad decline of critical theory and its eventual capitulation to anti-Marxism

Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2h

This conception remains crucial to liberalism, especially with all the talk of 'the public sphere' nowadays, supposedly the public mechanism of the democratic will that can successfully mobilize and resist 'authoritarian regimes', as long as we allow it to express itself

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2h

The liberal answer to fascism appears weak and ineffectual but we have to realize this is 𝘣𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯, what's supposed to stop fascism in this framework is, in essence, a vibrant civil society with its public debates, protests and 'non-political' interventions

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2h

This conception remains crucial to liberalism, especially with all the talk of 'the public sphere' nowadays, supposedly the public mechanism of the democratic will that can successfully mobilize and resist 'authoritarian regimes', as long as we allow it to express itself

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2h

We can literally trace the maturation of Marx's political theory in his critique of 𝘣ü𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵, Hegel's conception of civil society as a 'third realm' between the family and the state, one where social inequalities were mediated and ultimately resolved

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2h

this is where capitalism ultimately ends up, the total destruction of civil society as a space of resistance - this has been clearly understood for at least a hundred years in socialist theory and is only a surprise to those who refuse to educate themselves

Collieflower @collieflower.bsky.social · 16h

the hyperventilating reaction from these people about organic community anti-body response to these dickheads sliding in is super funny. talking them up like they're a shadowy background org from a Metal Gear game instead of just 3 people in inflatable frog suits.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 21h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 22h

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 1d

from Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

I might add: what thus seems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, ‘I am ideological’. It is necessary to be outside ideology, i.e. in scientific knowledge, to be able to say: I am in ideology (a quite exceptional case) or (the general case): I was in ideology. As is well known, the accusation of being in ideology only applies to others, never to oneself (unless one is really a Spinozist or a Marxist, which, in this matter, is to be exactly the same thing). Which amounts to saying that ideology has no outside (for itself), but at the same time that it is nothing but outside (for science and reality).

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 1d

'you should actually read these 200 articles to see what my field is about directly'

thanks I'll just read french marxists or something

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 1d

I think if you belong to a tradition of thought and can't recommend a reasonably competent book that traces its intellectual developments, you're just cooked honestly
One should always contextualize such things, I think there's plenty of historical work on Marxism that is good and worth reading

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 1d

Analytic philosophers are so allergic to historical/sociological analysis, it's a riot
Like I interact with a lot of ppl who are academics in that tradition, and I've never seen a book about the history of analytic philosophy that they actually endorse, it's always called bad and misrepresentation

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 1d

Cool story bro

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 1d

I remember absolutely losing my shit at this article
it holds up

How King Henry VIII Became the World’s First Gamer by Rerolling Pregnancy Until He Got a Child With Good Stats

Anyone who has read the Wikipedia page for King Henry VIII knows that he “was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547.”…

hard-drive.net

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2d

listened to this a couple of times while I was doing stuff

I think it's easy to dismiss his point as sort of pop-buddhist, and maybe parts of it are, but I do think there's something of actual profundity here

This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

YouTube video by Jeffrey Danese

youtu.be

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2d

I'm shocked

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 2d

Hasan shows off the “shock collar.”

And look at that, everyone attacking him looks like a fucking moron.

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2d

I always like lightning/electric characters the most

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2d

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 2d

how SHOCKING that you would get banned for posting nonsense

Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 3d

may I suggest just not jumping to wild speculations about a clip sourced from freaks who have been systematically trying to destroy Hasan's career for actual year and hunt down everything he's ever said and done

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 3d

the original claim was that he had a shock button on his desk that he reached for
[for some reason this was never used before, or commented on by the many guests who appear in Hasan's evil villain lair]

now we're moving on to other theories of potential torture

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 3d

there's no reason for a dog to yelp unless you're literally shocking them?

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 3d

the slop feeders are going to eat well for a while

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 3d

thank you for having a critical brain, it's rare when it concerns Hamas Piker the greatest terrorist of all time

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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️ @redkagami.bsky.social · 3d

I see logic was a strong subject for you

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isla @demomolos.bsky.social · 3d

please do not fall for this, there is no shock collar nor is there a fob. tectone (the guy who's father is in the congressional record for being the army's rape monster), kiwifarms, ethan klein, etc are trying to spread this because they are trying to find another venue to get hasan kicked off.

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