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Fri, 17 May 2013 18:14:43 +0100

"Sociologists who have stopped the time-machine and, with a good deal of conceptual huffing and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:06 +0100

“Sociologists who have stopped the time-machine and, with a good deal of conceptual huffing and puffing, have gone down to the engine room to look, tell us that nowhere at all have they been able to locate and classify a class. They can only find a multitude of people with different occupations, incomes, status-hierarchies, and the rest. Of course they are right, since class is not this or that part of the machine, but the way the machine works once it is set in motion – not this and that interest, but the friction of interests – the movement itself, the heat, the thundering noise. Class is a social and cultural formation (often finding institutional expression) which cannot be defined abstractly, or in isolation, but only in terms of relationship with other classes; and, ultimately, the definition can only be made in the medium of time - that is, action and reaction, change and conflict.When we speak of a class we are thinking of a very loosely defined body of people who share the same congeries of interests, social experiences, traditions and value-system, who have a disposition to behave as a class, to define themselves in their actions and in their consciousness in relation to other groups of people in class ways. But class itself is not a thing, it is a happening.”

- E.P. Thompson

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Fri, 17 May 2013 00:02:02 +0100

portrait of a civilisation in its death throes

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:25:16 +0100

portrait of a civilisation in its death throes

capo-lv5: red and blue roofs of housing projects |...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:23:19 +0100

capo-lv5:

red and blue roofs of housing projects | shanghai
(photographed on april.2013)

letsbuildahome-fr: A range of colourful buildings of both...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:23:07 +0100

letsbuildahome-fr:

A range of colourful buildings of both Chinese and Western design have been built on a bridge in Linshi Wine Town, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality

Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features

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Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:11 +0100

"The reform of consciousness consists only in making the world aware of its own consciousness, in..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:49:12 +0100

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The reform of consciousness consists only in making the world aware of its own consciousness, in awakening it out of its dream about itself, in explaining to it the meaning of its own actions. Our whole object can only be – as is also the case in Feuerbach’s criticism of religion – to give religious and philosophical questions the form corresponding to man who has become conscious of himself.

Hence, our motto must be: reform of consciousness not through dogmas, but by analysing the mystical consciousness that is unintelligible to itself, whether it manifests itself in a religious or a political form. It will then become evident that the world has long dreamed of possessing something of which it has only to be conscious in order to possess it in reality. It will become evident that it is not a question of drawing a great mental dividing line between past and future, but of realising the thoughts of the past. Lastly, it will become evident that mankind is not beginning a new work, but is consciously carrying into effect its old work.

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- Marx - letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843

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Thu, 16 May 2013 10:56:56 +0100

“In a conversation I deliberately use the expression “negative dialectic” as a key...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:55 +0100

“In a conversation I deliberately use the expression “negative dialectic” as a key phrase for Adorno’s way of thinking. “What does he mean by that – really?” Heidegger mischievously stretches the controversial adverb. I suggest that he understands his dialectic, in contrast to the positive Hegelian dialectic, to be a “denunciation” and a critique of what is for the sake of that about it which it is not and which is not allowed to be that way. I speak at length, perhaps too long, because I have recently published a review of Adorno’s Negative Dialectic. “One reacts critically.” Heidegger’s commentary: “So he is a sociologist and not a philosopher.” “But one who has more success with our ‘revolutionary’ studens than almost anyone else today. He practially causes critical protest, opposition. By reading him, it is possible to gain a philosophically supported position that is essentially a position of negation and that allows one to stand out, be different, act in reaction, agitate. Philosophical questioning in your sense is lost.” Heidegger’s response irritates me: “With whom did Adorno study?” I cannot answer this question and point instead to his origin as I interpret it; that is, to his publications. Heidegger does not go into it or into my comments on Adorno’s Minima Moralia. He listens and then returns, to his question that had only been postponed, not answered, by my discussion: “No, has he really studied with someone?” “I don’t know!”“

- Richard Wisser recounts a conversation with Heidegger from 1969.

“The cardinal ruse of theoreticians in general is that they present the result of their...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:37:53 +0000

“The cardinal ruse of theoreticians in general is that they present the result of their elaborations in such a way as to make the elaboration process itself no longer appear in them.”

Tiqqun

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Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:27:34 +0000

<3 u, leslie

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:24:31 +0000

<3 u, leslie

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Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:56:24 +0000

Seacroft Town Centre, Leeds - 1967

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:33:01 +0000

Seacroft Town Centre, Leeds - 1967

Mamdou Cissé

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:39:18 +0000

Mamdou Cissé

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Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:29:37 +0000

splitting ions in the ether

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:16:31 +0000

splitting ions in the ether