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lent my copy of heilbroner out to a girl i had a thing with for a minute and never got it back :-/

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"a self-serving history of economic thought which arcs toward him" based. keep being a crypto-anti-communist

so much easier to send anonymous stuff like this than to say anything about why i might be wrong

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Ok, but regrdless of Marx’s categories, do you think that Ricardo treats the capitalist mode of production as the natural mode of production?

he is guilty of assuming what we think of as capitalist economic relations and even smuggles in the occasional robinson crusoe story, as marx himself notes. he also sets out to make a case in the first chapter of the principles, riffing on smith, about the value of commodities in "the early states of society", which projects the categories of political economy backwards onto forms of society where they don't apply. beyond that, in his correspondence with trower over the nature of value, he treats it as something which is reducible to a kind of disutility preference, which is interesting both as it relates to the "objective" or "labor" theory which we associate with him AND in its shift to a kind of subjective evaluation which is independent of the economic order as such. it wouldn't be too hard to make the case for this being read as a kind of eternalization of value.

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you keep implying that marx’s categories are just arbitrary choices he makes as opposed to the political economists, but the whole point of measuring surplus value as a ratio between surplus and necessary labor is it elucidates real changes in surplus via things like lengthening of the workday that become invisibilized if surplus is measured against the total work day. you can quibble about his semantics but he’s not just making up categories to make them up

i'm not implying they're arbitrary at all, i'm just saying that his projections back onto the political economists as if they themselves are guilty of underutilizing or misunderstanding *his* categories leads to a bunch of ridiculous accusations on his part or, at best, a self-serving history of economic thought which arcs toward him

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when are people going to start doing hyper realistic paintings to look like AI generated art

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loved your performance in baby reindeer, really compelling

this is some sort of cultural reference i don't get so im not sure if im supposed to be upset

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“Ricardo never concerns himself about the origin of surplus-value. He treats it as a thing inherent in the capitalist mode of production, which mode, in his eyes, is the natural form of social production” do you agree with marx here?

i agree that ricardo doesn't concern himself with marxs categories (the first sentence). i disagree that he treats it in terms of marxs categories (the second sentence). this is a classic marx move of being mad at others for not using his analysis before him.

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Why tf are u reblogging that Taylor swift spotify screenshot so many times jfc

i was repeatedly adding onto a post to liveblog my reaction to the album rather than making a bunch of separate individuated posts. also that isn't spotify. i am a pretentious apple music doer so why don't u jot that down

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i should add. give me a vocalist singing good lyrics and a string instrument. i don't need crazy guitar solos or synths or anything like that. maybe a well placed bass riff or some brushes. something that brings you along with it rather than subjecting you to itself. i want to be carried off, not assaulted by sound

i am, of course, a snob about lyrics. i think they're basically the most important part of any song and that anything else which isn't supporting them is probably too much if not an outright distraction. just give me a vocalist and a string instrument and i'm happy

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i am, of course, a snob about lyrics. i think they're basically the most important part of any song and that anything else which isn't supporting them is probably too much if not an outright distraction. just give me a vocalist and a string instrument and i'm happy

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the biggest takeaway of the night is that taylor swift and i have a very similar writing process in terms of the necessary structure of the song and how it develops, although the aesthetic judgements are very different and i would not write half of the words, much less half of the phrases/sentences. i have, for years, expressed a principled opposition to what i call "proper noun songs", which is to say, i don't think lyrics should be overly specific (although, admittedly a bit of a misnomer, since i'm not allergic to any and all proper nouns in lyrics). i prefer to write and listen to what i have, in the past, talked about in terms of "concrete universals", where any amount of specificity is just a stand-in for something which can be felt by the listener and related to, even if it has never been experienced (this is also, for the record, what draws me specifically to country music). i can't relate to her words, because so much of the album is about being taylor swift. she's writing this for and about herself. there's nothing wrong with that, per se, but i think her earlier work was stronger specifically because she took on the role of a story teller (not as a narrator, necessarily, but as character in a story she was writing). nowadays she's writing autobiographical reflection and it's not nearly as interesting or hard-hitting.

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i don't think i can finish tonight. i don't have the mental fortitude and it hasn't been kind to me so far. i guess if i had to give compliments, id say this is probably her most interesting release *musically*, although im not a tswift expert so maybe im off the mark there. i dug the acoustic sadgirl vibes pivot of folklore and i think this retains some of that (maybe not quite enough for my taste), but the lyrics ruined the earlier album and seem to be doing everything they can to do the same for this one. but she's doing some interesting music-y stuff i dont really expect to get from her. i don't know if she lands it, but its ambitious and i can appreciate it on a technical level. the instrumentation and mix have been mostly fine (aside from a couple weird spots which are so off-putting i can only imagine they're deliberate). that "so long, london" tune is pretty solid. "loml" and "i can fix him" are i think lyrically and vibes-wise approximating good. just about everything else has been, i think, a waste of studio time. this should've been a 4 or 5 song EP.

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i'm only halfway done. i'm going to k

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WAIT FUCK I JUST REALIZED I NEVER HESRD THE GTA LYRIC AND FOUND OUT THERES A WHOLE NOTHER ALBUM BASICSLLY IN SOME DELUXE VERSION OR SOME SHIT

i'm goin in. tswift live-blogging begins now

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the album ends with her sublation. she's aufhebung'd. ok that's all folks

i'm goin in. tswift live-blogging begins now

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"the alchemy" is 3rd song in a row that hurts to listen to

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this reads like the poems my emo friends wrote in middle school. which isn't a good thing

i'm goin in. tswift live-blogging begins now