Can we blame this guy for nearly everything that's wrong with the modern left? His theories lead to the creation of:
He also told people not to read the first chapters of Capital and completely denied human agency, so fuck this guy.
Can we blame this guy for nearly everything that's wrong with the modern left? His theories lead to the creation of:
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Joseph Anderson
Oh boy it's another can we blame X postmodernism thinker for Y thread…
Brandon Fisher
Forgot to mention:
Arguably his biggest crimes.
Robert Morales
I don't mind him. I still gotta read more, but I'm sympathetic to structuralist analyses anyway.
Jordan Jones
But OP, Althusser looked like on suave motherfucker. Totally OG like Ilyekov. I don't think we've had any sexier philosophers on the Left.
Kayden Reyes
It is a rare philosopher who actually changes anything, and Althusser is not one of them. He created nothing; he only expressed ideas that would have sprouted regardless of his works.
Jonathan Sanchez
When he was 50, he looked worse than Lukács did at 80.
Brayden Stewart
That's a very Althusserian thing to say.
Isaac Young
You may have a point. Ilyenkov is still OG tho
Elijah Lewis
>implying Kafka or even Camus aren't some of the most handsome men of leftism
Isaac Long
you went full idealist
Wyatt Diaz
What's wrong with Hardt & Negri?
Ethan Walker
ITT
Oliver Torres
Pretty sure the ISA stuff can be used to debunk these positions.
Nicholas Collins
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Caleb Powell
The works of Nietzsche and Saussure–who was not even a philosopher–led to the creation of PoMo.
Colton Jackson
This.
Daniel Rodriguez
Read this book please.
Elijah Morales
Postmodernists always did critique postmodernism.
Dominic Ramirez
Nice once.
Jeremiah Carter
Explain how Althusser is anti-idpol.
Ayden Stewart
WUT
Caleb Diaz
Getting off the GS allowed for financial capital to flourish.
Ian Powell
The final split between signifier and signified, which typifies postmodernity and the postmodern condition, happened when money itself dematerialized in the 70's with the rise of credit, financial capitalism, etc. This process of dematerialization, I'd argue, goes back to the Bretton Woods Conference.
Baudrillard is probably not liked around here, but he was correct in conceiving a general semiology of simulation based on the premise of the end of referentiality in both language AND the economy, which is precisely what we are experiencing today.
Jayden Smith
Well, for starters, he's an anti-humanist, opposed to the notion of the 'individual' as such (and as political category).
Brayden James
This is what I'm saying. PoMo would have never taken off had the world remained on a Gold Standard.
Luis Flores
The society remained on a gold standard even with the implementation of fiat currencies. Both existed to reify the other.
Noah Sullivan
What about the "oil standard"?
Ryder Rivera
Not an expert on Althusser, not even a big fan but I think he would be hostile.
He takes all identity except the fundamental capitalist one as being ideologically, not materially constructed:
And the control of that ideology is produced and reproduced by those that control the state.
If my reasoning is sound, conclusion is:
The social identities with which people self-identify, excluding the fundamental relation/object of capitalism, are sub-structures of the dominant ideological structure
William Cook
This is
LITERALLY the first page of his Reading Capital.
Benjamin Roberts
Baudrillard eventually became too much of an idealist and placed too much emphasis on the semiotic value, that's why he turned against Marx's "productivism" in the Mirror of production.
But that turn also strikes me as somewhat dishonest and conservative. What the hell would be the alternative to man as a producer, other than teh stupid romantic "primitivism" he somewhat succumbs to. ( a fundamental misunderstanding of Battaille, who was still a Hegelian when he was exploring those non-western moralities)
Hudson Lopez
fuck off pol
Benjamin Wright
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Nicholas Torres
Completely capitulated to the system, fuck him
Has the same problems as Althussser in making Marx a sociologist, instead of treating him like the philosopher he was.
Isn't even a Marxist anymore, some of ideas of his are insightful for philosophy, but I wouldn't call him a Marxist in any way or form, many of his ideas are too "moralistic" or Kantian to be fully Marxist. He and Meillasoux are useful however for revamping materialism.
Luke Carter
Can you explain what's wrong with Ranciere exactly, also
Perhaps Post-Marxist would be a better word?