"Time sheds its qualitative, variable, flowing nature; it freezes into an exactly delimited, quantifiable continuum filled with quantifiable things... in short, it becomes space" - Lukács
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Replying to @EBBerger
How is this not just Bergson on even more mushrooms? ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
cuz it's ripped from the metaphysical realm and describes the inner structure of capitalist civilization... but Bergson on a bunch of mushrooms is grand too!
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Replying to @EBBerger
So the key to understanding the inner structure of capitalist civilization is romantic vitalism on 'shrooms?
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... There's no "thought of a clockless world" -- there's the suggestion that the thought of a clockless world would be cool (if possible), and should be possible for communist reasons. ...
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... Even Ed admits that the actual question is "How could we stamp out clocks without creating mass starvation?" (It's quite traditional.)
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Replying to @Outsideness @thomasmurphy__
all I hear are the positivist critiques of would-be utopians, the appeals for beautiful souls think with some semblance of reason ("please, you couldn't possibly mean THAT!"), when all I want is the ANTI-CLOCK WAR FORGED IN HELL
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Replying to @Outsideness @thomasmurphy__
I know, we're circling that cauldron
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Replying to @EBBerger @thomasmurphy__
Clocks taking the rap for the collapse of the Utopian-egalitarian notion of fungible labor power.
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