君子不器
‘The Crimes of Theodora’ from ‘A Secret History’ by Procopius Suspicion fell upon Theodora of a love affair ; with one of her servants called Areobindus, of foreign extraction but handsome and quite young, whom she had chosen to be her steward. Wishing to refute the charge (though, if report was true, madly in love…
The term toward which capitalist globalisation is leading conforms to the tendency observed by Marx: a generalised commodification of goods and services, of products of knowledge, of ‘labour power’ itself and of all the things of nature. That this diagnostic has borne out seems to fill some of his disciples almost with pride. But the…