Culture Commentary and Miscellaneous Musings
Continue reading “Review – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)”There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai
Continue reading “Review: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka”Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
page 9, Filterworld
April was dominated by a single video game, books and some video essays. I expect this to be the norm going forward.
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Continue reading “Review: Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris”Starving the peasants into the factories is the classic narrative of proletarianization, the creation story of the industrial working class. California didn’t have the factories of a Manchester, UK; a Lyon, France; or a Lowell, Massachusetts, but the state took on a factory orientation towards what it did have, which was gold and land. Unlike so much of the world, California did not see capitalist economics evolve step-by-step out of feudal property relations. Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.
Page 20 of Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
March was mostly the month of the non-fiction book sprinkled along with a bit of video game and a TV show.
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