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She must still discover that myths are basic truths twisted into mnemonics, instructions posted from the past, memories waiting to become predictions.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The economy in Marx’s sense is, rather, the sum of activities and processes through which social reproduction is organised; and the logics which govern these processes are inherently social and historical: ‘__Historical materialist approaches begin,’ as Brenner puts it, ‘from a denial of any notion of trans-historical individual economic rationality’__.35 It is this denaturalisation of the economy which radically distinguishes Marx from political economy (as well as contemporary economics).
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
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