Friday, March 29, 2024

Money Wisdom #519

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 "Trying to root or weed out 'bad' or 'unhealthy' desires only scatters the seeds into darker corners, in which they gr...

Money Wisdom #518

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 "Roland Barthes makes at east two crucial points in his lecture series How We Live Together . The first is that while we have thought ...

Money Wisdom #517

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 "... the orange man's demonstrative ugliness somehow ironically masks the high-fructose aspirations that that global gangster, Cap...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Money Wisdom #516

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The strange irony of the concept of ecology in Western history is that while "nature" precedes all human activity by billions of y...

Money Wisdom #515

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..[N]ow, in our time, the problem of money has to be faced as a problem of consciousness, as a problem of the being of man in the universal ...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Money Wisdom #514

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 "What makes the Roman Law conception of property - the basis of all legal systems today - unique is that the responsibility to care an...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Money Wisdom #513

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"The power of capitalist realism derives in part from the way that capitalism subsumes and consumes all of previous history: one effect...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Money Wisdom #512

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"Capitalist ideology in general, Žižek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective at...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Money Wisdom #511

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 "Money has value only when immanent in circulation  (payment or exchanges), but on the other hand seems to be a stable, value-embodyin...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Money Wisdom #510

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 "The single, invisible, homogeneous power that inheres in money is uniquely responsive to my will, and so occupies the boundary betwee...