Rimbaud III wrote:
Rysie, why don't we start our course in critical theory somewhere in the middle and look at the Frankfurt School?

I dont see why not.

Then we could maybe have a game of cup and ball and go for a slap up meal at Mrs. Miggins pie shop.

The Frankfurt School is great. I had to write a couple of essays where Frankfurt theory saved my ass.

I say a gentle dose of critical theory followed up with some Camus, a bit of philosophical fiction would be a nice treat. After that I say we force him to read Being and Nothingness.

rysie wrote:I dont see why not.

Then we could maybe have a game of cup and ball and go for a slap up meal at Mrs. Miggins pie shop.

So long as you let us pump you with some Theodor Adorno. Pump him right up you.

Rimbaud III wrote:

rysie wrote:I dont see why not.

Then we could maybe have a game of cup and ball and go for a slap up meal at Mrs. Miggins pie shop.

So long as you let us pump you with some Theodor Adorno. Pump him right up you.

Then I'm gunna force him to read Empire by Antonio Negri... all 700 pages of dense autonomous Marxist theory, I've even got it in the original Italian, maybe he should learn a language as well?

Mmmm. If we're talking about reading original texts, he should probably learn some French and then tackle some Baudrillard, non? Or some Bourdieu...

Or Debord (for giggles).

Maybe you're right, he should start with Italian and read some Umberto Eco.

Fuck it, he should learn German and read some Habermas. He could write us a paper on the internet and internet forums as a kind of public sphere.

Was is Camus or Satre who never actually read any of Marx's texts, but rather prefered to bluff his references to Marxism?

I forget.

Still, despect due.

Gramsci and Rimbaud sitting in a tree......
















.....talking shite

rysie wrote:Gramsci and Rimbaud sitting in a tree......
















.....talking shite

Along came a rabbit....



and disagreed with everything I said....

Champion Rabbit wrote:Was is Camus or Satre who never actually read any of Marx's texts, but rather prefered to bluff his references to Marxism?

I forget.

Still, despect due.

Hmmm, Camus was only a member of the Communist Party of France for a short time, but quit over Algeria, which pissed Sartre off big-time. Sartre isn't the kind of guy not to have read Marx, he was a very serious academic.

So it's maybe Camus, but he rarely mentions Marx in any of his writing, and also no much of a bluffer... Trust me, I've read everything he has produced. - just to explain how much of a sad-ass I am, I spent two years reading nothing but Camus...

Champion Rabbit wrote:Was is Camus or Satre who never actually read any of Marx's texts, but rather prefered to bluff his references to Marxism?

I forget.

Still, despect due.

No no, that was ME, and this is well evidenced in the essays I wrote whilst at uni.










Who am I kidding? I never went to university. I did a correspondance course in proof-reading and these days I check to see if there are any speeling mistaks in chinayse restyrant menyous.