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The Alienation of Reason Leszek Kolakowski on the culture of logical empiricism [logical positivism] and the cultural context of philosophy. In one respect, however, the positivist program has a value that can hardly be questioned. Although the expectation that it can serve as an effective antidote to social dangers stemming from the most various ideological…
“I Didn’t Sit Eight and a Half Years in Jail to Build Capitalism” Polish Stalinism was toppled in October, and Modzelewski initially supported the new party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. But when Gomulka dismantled the workers’ councils and reestablished bureaucratic dictatorship, Modzelewski and his comrade Jacek Kuron — the history student who he met at Warsaw…
Marxist Humanism Good entrypoint to the debate
Marxists (Trotskyists) on Taiwan Taiwan
Raymond Williams “Culture is Ordinary” (1958)
Schweighauser: “Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson~” •Utopia and Science Fiction “Unlike earlier dystopian narratives, cyberpunk invites us not only to accept the current socioeconomic order but to derive pleasure from what Jameson now diagnoses as an empty, lawless social space emerging out of the displacement of civil society – here…