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ace is just another tiresome free markety metaphysician. the posts are interesting only to the extent that they perform something of the ideological paralysis that's abroad in the land. folk who's frame is entirely neo-liberal and context-independent find themselves in a something like a spiritual problem that they cannot resolve so they revert to repeating axioms. that it's unhinged from any reality beyond that of a collective cognitive problem is erased by the fact of repeating axioms. other folk are in a position to talk variously about context and in many cases move past the twitching corpse of neo-liberalism, but in an ad-hoc manner, first because there's no agreed-upon alternative framework---or even analytic basis for making such a framework as the transforms that neoliberal regimes pulled off while doping up its population with neo-liberal bromides amount to a basic reorganization of the geography of capitalism itself and so there's an extent to which a project like the marxian one has to start over again except that the dead weight of marxism itself is in the way. and people are taking that on, i think, in their ways---but there's no linkage between that and the ideological production machinery.
so you get results like ace's posts that perform the twitching of the corpse of an outmoded ideology without the slightest idea that is what it is.
the respite from reality comes in trying to shift every debate to the metaphysical register. this is duplicated by appeals to intuition, to the gut.
the moves are obvious and do not change.
the results are predicable and are, to my mind, without interest except in some anthropological way.
one either plays along or one doesn't
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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