/lit/ - Literature

this seems a little more germane to what i want to talk about tho. says Uncle Nick:

>Some right-wing think tank should actually fund the completion of a critical edition of the Marx corpus. (I'm happy to explain why.)

https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1060956344486846465

as the Chemical Brothers say, we're out of control. and Uncle Nick is one of the first really interesting Continental-Analytic crossover philosophers for this reason. a change of perspective on Marx, decoupled from Hegel, means a change about a lot of other things also. everything you see today happening in the US is a war between Red and Blue protestants for exactly the reasons he says. and those wars are just as stupid and reciprocal as any other. we are fortunate that they aren't nuclear-armed rival superpowers, as was the case in the 20C. but where America goes today, everybody else goes a week later.

to get a grip: that's got to happen. Space Taoism is an interestingly *loose* grip, to be sure, and that is why i like it. but it is a grip nonetheless. and it pairs well with my own sensibilities about a kind of secession from a lot of things, and thinking after Meltdown.