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Regarding knowing your strengths, Drucker says: [This] enables people to say to an opportunity, to an offer, to an assignment, “Yes, I’ll do that. But this is the way I should be doing it. This is the way it should be structured. This is the way my relationships should be. These are the kind of results you should expect from me, and in this time frame, because this is who I am.” Many people struggle with this. They aren’t sure what their strengths are. Drucker offers a helpful definition: “What are you good at that consistently produces desired results?”
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
the commodity form has nothing to do with the material properties of a thing. Instead, the commodity form is a social property, whose existence depends upon the nature of the social bond; a use-value becomes a commodity when it is transmitted to somebody else via exchange.
How to Read Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
The dialectic between a juridical imperative that cannot be fulfilled and an inevitable failure “before the law” recalls the tortured relationship between the God of the Old Testament and those humiliated servants who offer their obedience without reward. That sexuality now embodies this religious impulse in the form of the demand for love (considered to be an “absolute” demand) that is distinct from both need and desire (a kind of ecstatic transcendence that eclipses sexuality altogether) lends further credibility to the Symbolic as that which operates for human subjects as the inaccessible but all-determining deity. This structure of religious tragedy in Lacanian theory effectively undermines any strategy of cultural politics to configure an alternative imaginary for the play of desires.
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
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