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What Jameson helped me understand is that postmodern subjective idealism is philosophically and epistemologically aligned with neoliberalism in a very fundamental way: in the same sense that postmodern subjectivity posits that the world is made up of individually competing realities (again, as a reasonable pushback against the racist, sexist, and colonial norms associated with positivism), neoliberalism posits an atomized worldview of individuals and individual products competing with each other to define marketplace reality. As Jameson essentially argues, __the individual subjectivity of postmodernism is a logical and cultural parallel to the market subjectivity of late-stage capitalism.__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
To have faith in the possibility of freedom is to have faith in something that will always be precarious and contestable, even in its fullest actualization.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
Seneca wrote: “He has not lived long—he has existed long. Would you say that a man who had been caught in a fierce storm as soon as he set sail, and, buffeted to and fro by a series of winds raging from all sides, had been driven in a circle around the same course, had had a long journey? It was not a lot of journeying, but a lot of tossing about.”
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
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