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👊 The End of the Future
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The End of the Future
Both the Left and the Right used to articulate radically different visions of the future. Today the entire political spectrum looks backward, aiming to restore the past.

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"What if, in this period of the over-production of printed matter and the proliferation of methods of quick reading, they were intended to speed the reader across a sentence in such a way that he can salute a readymade idea effortlessly in passing, without suspecting that real thought demands a descent into the materiality of language and a consent to time itself in the form of the sentence?" -- Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form

Reading one of those monographs that, though close to my interests in terms of subject, period and, indeed, politics, I desperately want to chuck across the room. Whether it's Marxism, liberalism, or nationalism, a methodology aimed primarily at upholding (even in a modified form) a given ideology isn't history. I don't care how many footnotes* you have.
*In this particular book, as is often the case, the vast majority of references are to studies, most often theoretical, n…

Ha! :)
"What if, in this period of the over-production of printed matter and the proliferation of methods of quick reading, they were intended to speed the reader across a sentence in such a way that he can salute a readymade idea effortlessly in passing, without suspecting that real thought demands a descent into the materiality of language and a consent to time itself in the form of the sentence?" -- Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form