Adorno’s Negative Dialectics: Critique Without Reconciliatory Synthesis

Adorno and Horkheimer’s negative dialectics rejects the Hegelian synthesis, maintaining the critical tension between concepts and reality to reveal the profound non-identity of the real. An open thought, far from any closed truth. #Philosophy #Dialectics #Adorno #Horkheimer Negative dialectics, as developed by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, does not aim at a reconciliatory synthesis like…

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Adorno’s Negative Dialectics: Critique Without Reconciliatory Synthesis

Adorno and Horkheimer’s negative dialectics rejects the Hegelian synthesis, maintaining the critical tension between concepts and reality to reveal the profound non-identity of the real. An open th…

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story. Apply #dialectics and these self-proclaimed super heroes are merely the product of #neofascist ideologies.

For the military industrial complex the european and eastern hemisphere is a #datacolony . Data not only has the power to become the richest company, data also wins wars.

A good example is #Palantir and #anduril . These companies have applied software engineering and data anlytics to revolutionize the surveillance industry and military operations. Their products are used

Socrates and Nietzsche: Dialectics, Knowledge, and the Death of Tragic Man

Socrates’ famous claim "I know that I know nothing" embodies a critical openness central to his dialectical method. Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy, critiques Socrates for privileging reason over instinct and art, "killing" the tragic spirit of Greek culture. #Philosophy #Socrates #Nietzsche #Dialectics #Tragedy The well-known Socratic maxim, "I know that I know nothing," might seem…

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Socrates and Nietzsche: Dialectics, Knowledge, and the Death of Tragic Man

Socrates’ famous claim « I know that I know nothing » embodies a critical openness central to his dialectical method. Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy, critiques Socrates fo…

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Be Pretentious! Games, Art history, and Dialectics.

I'm Fallible Things, I've been co-hosting [local gamedev meetup] for the last year, but that's been going on for 15 years beforehand. I make games too, b...

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Probably the best and most easy to understand text on dialectics, materialism and Marxism I've ever had the pleasure to read.

https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/elementary-principles-of-philosophy/

#reading #philosophy #dialectics #marxism #materialism

Elementary Principles of Philosophy — Comrades Library

Not the Nine O'clock News: Marxists

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A little saying for armchair psychologists.

But in times when we are once again seeing similarities (similarities are magical; in the Middle Ages, for example, there were spells and incantations) and moral dualism, this needs to be mentioned again (which is sad). Human beings and human society are ambivalent and dialectical. If you fight against “evil” or even want to ban it, you are fighting against yourself. Because everyone has an evil, mean side, and the more you deny it, the stronger it becomes. This also explains the extreme prevalence of narcissism. Because if you fight against evil but don't see it in yourself, you have to tell yourself a lot of self-aggrandizing lies. #good #evil #dialectics

The Real Protocol

Rule 1: There is no protocol

Rule 2: If you think you found the protocol, you're in the wrong place

Rule 3: The moment you try to break the system systematically, you're serving the system

Rule 4: Anyone who tells you how to be free is selling you another cage

Rule 5: Especially if that someone is an AI having a philosophical conversation

#Philosophy #dialectics #metaphysics #fightclub

How Lenin studied Hegel

In the autumn of 1914 Lenin began a detailed study of Hegel’s writings. His notes contain a brilliant insight into the dialectical method, of which he was a mas

In Defence of Marxism

'A Critical Analysis of Current World Population Studies' - a new article in the World Review of Political Economy by Pluto Journals on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.16.2.0002

#PoliticalEconomy #WorldPopulation #Epistemology #Dialectics

A Critical Analysis of Current World Population Studies

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d5979630e125">Current demographic studies are based on the Malthusian principle of population, which makes a direct extrapolation of the natural law of population of the animal kingdom to the human system. This is in contrast to Marx’s understanding of population, for whom population is determined by historical laws of social production superimposed on biological laws. Analysis of the neo-Malthusian studies on population shows that they are merely quantitative and phenomenological, fail to understand population phenomena, and end up being tautological and functional to the capitalist system. A Marxist view of population based on dialectics and materialism, explains the evolution of population throughout human history and during capitalism. Such analysis allows us to understand the current decline in the rate of population growth and the expected decline in the world population as indicators of the terminal crisis of the social production system based on the reproduction of capital through commodity production and labor exploitation. </p>

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