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Post by shaunyata on Sept 4, 2019 11:53:42 GMT
Hello everyone: I suggest that we make Trash Community #4 about Buddhism and Marxism, led by Chaim. Since he's fresh off the retreat with Tom Pepper, he probably has lots of interesting and provocative things to say on the topic, the makings of a robust discussion. What do you think?
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Post by shaunyata on Sept 19, 2019 13:14:30 GMT
I would like to propose that the next Trash community be a debate between the Buddho-Marxist critique of Capitalism, offered by Chaim and Tom Pepper; and a networkological critique of Capitalism--aka 'post-capitalism'--offered by Oshan Jarrow and Paul Mason. Or maybe nobody in this Trash Community cares enough to even go on with this project. If not, I'll end my involvement in it. _____________________________________________________ Jarrow's A Post-Capitalist Philosophy of Networks offers an intriguing possibility of post-capitalism through superseding networks. musingmind.org/essays/networking-post-capitalismWhat I find particularly compelling is this critique offered by Guattari: "It’s this scrapping of business-as-usual that Guattari sees potentiating our moment in cultural evolution: “Henceforth it is the ways of living on this planet that are in question, in the context of the acceleration of techno-scientific mutations and of considerable demographic growth. Through the continuous development of machinic labour, multiplied by the information revolution, productive forces can make available an increasing amount of time for potential human activity. But to what end? Unemployment, oppressive marginalisation, loneliness, boredom, anxiety and neurosis? Or culture, creation, development, the reinvention of the environment and the enrichment of modes of life and sensibility?” The latter ends are networked possibilities. In these liminal spaces, competing futures grapple with institutions of the present. What prevails will depend largely upon what ways of living we network ourselves into. Here’s Paul Mason again: “Everything comes down to the struggle between the network and the hierarchy: between old forms of society moulded around capitalism and new forms of society that prefigure what comes next.”
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Post by Failed Buddhist on Sept 22, 2019 23:27:21 GMT
Hello everyone: I suggest that we make Trash Community #4 about Buddhism and Marxism, led by Chaim. Since he's fresh off the retreat with Tom Pepper, he probably has lots of interesting and provocative things to say on the topic, the makings of a robust discussion. What do you think? Hi Shaun. This is a great suggestion, and I would love to dedicate a Trash Community to this topic. Perhaps Tom would be willing to join us. In terms of the next meeting, I just posted a piece (containing some Marxist elements) regarding the general direction of the Trash Community, which I hope we can discuss next week. Sorry for the delayed replies. I've been bogged down by the start of the year, but now that my time is freeing up, I will be able to dedicate more time to this. FB
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