Found the notebook that I was keeping for the things that I read late last year and some of the notes are still a lot to think about
"One should write history by stating with scraps and ruins; the task is to reconstitute, patiently, a nomenclature of invisible buildings, to rediscover the exact form of the remnants on which the social edifice now stands."
"Ideology is not a matter of any 'content' in particular; rather it is a relationship between human beings, more specifically, a relation of subjugation that seems to be freely accepted. A sentiment of membership or belonging."
"In order to preserve the capitalist system of production, ideas must be relegated to a field where they have only display value — without any relation to economic or political reality."
"Democratic ambition begins with refusing the traditional hierarchy governing genres and subjects — refusing to idealize and ennoble reality as perceived along the uniform lines dictated by power."
And my favorite one:
"All thinking remains tainted by idealism is it fails to account for refuse and loss, religious ecstasy and erotic pleasure, tears and bodily fluids."
"All thinking remains tainted by idealism is it fails to account for refuse and loss, religious ecstasy and erotic pleasure, tears and bodily fluids."
"John Miller showed that 'time off' is now a component of the working world, which alone lends it meaning. Free time belongs to the universe of what production has discarded — except when it can be channeled towards leisure that generates new profits."
"The postmodern notion of leisure, conceived as a supplement of working life, simply prolongs work — just as recycling extends industrial production by recreating value at the very heart of a wasteland."
No idea why I stopped taking notes while reading
