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Contemplative lecture
a) hardly a valid reason to read The Capital: the correction of a comrade Hope in Hopeless Times is the relentless granddaughter of a book, that his author want it to be, it “keeps on muttering Not Enough! Not Enough!“(p. 20) from the beginning to end. There is a blatant resemblance to the More! More!…
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nothing learnt, nothing forgotten
Five years ago today, we mourned the demise of Joachim Bruhn. Without ever meeting the man, he inspired me in darkest times and in busiest hours. For those, who knew him and miss him, I want to express my condolences. May you remember the look in his eyes in the way that I imagine it,…
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hopeless hope
I want to write an essay about John Holloways 2022 book “hope in hopeless times”, and i want both to indulge in economy and in poetry of the beginning of The Capital and the Parts V&VI of JHs book – with an excursion into commodity forms. More intense analysis of an independent richness surmounts the…
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Subject of tides and inquisitorial torture
Hope and Despair E.A. Poe described a prisoner of the Inquisition and his tortures by the pit and the pendulum. He is bound to a table with a pendulum above his body slowly, rhythmically closing in on him, etc. There is no inquisitor to beg to, but layers of chambers of architectural ingenuity. He is…