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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

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“De som oppdaget Marx på nytt, nymarxistene, skulle få stor innflytelse på 1960-årenes nye venstreradikalisme, som videre har gitt støtet til vekkelsen som i dag går under navnet "woke". Atypiske marxister for for (og som inspirerte) nymarxistene, fryktet at den frigjørende revolusjonen ville utebli dersom man lot alt være opp til de "historiske lover".”

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Book:Kateterprofetenes opprør: Arven fra Det nye venstre, og hvordan vår tids vekkelse kritiserer Vesten i stykker
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“The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity as sexual—this is patriarchal aesthetics. Patriarchal passion sees violent sex as the essential creative act, even aesthetically, through a sort of metaphysical transubstantiation. This is their romantic belief that sex with the Master can produce the artistic spirit in the student. Male creativity is thus born in another, her work is given depth through the violent transgression of her boundaries.”

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Book:Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
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“It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. Or if, on the other hand, events are limited to the combinations of some finite number, then of necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence.”

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Book:Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
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“Work hard. Work dirty. Choose your favourite spade and dig a small, deep hole; located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Then bury your cell phone. And then find a hobby. Actually, 'hobby' is not a weighty enough word to represent what I am trying to get across. Let's use 'discipline' instead. If you engage in a discipline or do something with your hands, instead of kill time on your phone device, then you have something to show for your time when you're done. Cook. Play music. Sew. Carve. Shit, bedazzle! Or, maybe not bedazzle. The arrhythmic is quite simple, instead of playing Draw Something, fucking draw something. Take the cleverness you apply to Words with Friends and utilize it to make some kick ass corn bread, Corn Bread with Friends - try that game. I'm here to tell you that we've been duped on a societal level. My favourite writer, Wendell Berry writes on this topic with great eloquence, he posits that we've been sold a bill of goods claiming that work is bad. That sweating and working especially if soil or saw dust is involved are beneath us. Our population especially the urbanites, has largely forgotten that working at a labor that one loves is actually a privilege.”

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Author:Nick Offerman
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