Category: Philosophy
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The Ideal Is Not in the Head
The demonstration of what is at stake when thought loses its friction with reality and becomes a closed loop of self-confirming categories.
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PIG IRON 7: Learning to Think
Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Set Out the Framework for Learning to Think
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PIG IRON 6A: The Arithmetic of Care
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore the Numbers Behind the Care Crisis
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The Machinery Considering Itself
A non-specialist’s attempt to climb the ladder from chemistry to behaviour — and understand what it means for the rest of our political and cultural economy project
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Harvey and the Continentals
David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and the Cultural Spine of Political Economy
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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PIG IRON 3: Alienation, or Why He Feels Like a Tourist at Home
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 3: In which we explore the defining contradiction: Alienation
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PIG IRON 1: How Money Works
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.
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PIG IRON 0: What This Is
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.
