We’re standing on a small overpass right next to Yoyogi park in Shibuya, watching the parade section of the Tokyo Pride event doing its circuit through the local city centre.
"The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate."
And how it did, today two centuries later it went beyond the walls of China, passed through the seas and destroyed japanese culture turning it into a lab (in Günther Anders sense) for the hideous technological development servile of the commodity economy of course. This terrible chimera.
By the way, I recommend this text done by Bertrand Louart
thanks bro! sorry for being slow on catching up on the conversation, finished a major project at work last week and had to put in a lot of extra time but now it's lightening up a little bit
have you started on the Middle East background piece?
Marx on the Communist Manifesto famously wrote:
"The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate."
And how it did, today two centuries later it went beyond the walls of China, passed through the seas and destroyed japanese culture turning it into a lab (in Günther Anders sense) for the hideous technological development servile of the commodity economy of course. This terrible chimera.
By the way, I recommend this text done by Bertrand Louart
Technology vs. civilization
https://libcom.org/article/technology-vs-civilization-bertrand-louart
I'm reminded of Herbie Marcuse's *repressive desublimination*...
Don't think I've come across this concept before. Would you mind explaining it?
I'm gonna have to think about how to do that...
Meanwhile:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=repressive-desublimation
Love it
thanks bro! sorry for being slow on catching up on the conversation, finished a major project at work last week and had to put in a lot of extra time but now it's lightening up a little bit
have you started on the Middle East background piece?
I started thinking about starting 🤣
"the war that matters is the war against the imagination
all other wars are subsumed in it.
the ultimate famine is the starvation
of the imagination..."
-Diane di Prima