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In reply to the discussion: Columbia protesters want to be fed while the occupy campus building [View all]Sympthsical
(9,238 posts)I'm currently in college, familiar with all those terms (often unwillingly), and that is just a mishmash of nonsense. Which I understood. I can't figure out if that's an indictment of her or me.
It will sound very smart. It will be very stupid. So, she's probably on a future tenure track with that one (source: I've met my sociology professors)
Although I do find the concept of metabolic rift interesting, because it runs close to my thinking about technology, the Internet, and social media. Strip out the Marxist stupid, and there's a kernel of an idea that humans evolved to interact with the natural world in various specific ways. Agriculture, industry, and technology have separated us from that. I think we've all said or heard some variation of "The human brain was not built to stare at a screen all day. It's not equipped for it." A common sentiment.
The problem here with the "Marxian lens" is that it's going to be a long papering over and apologia for shitty things her favorite ideology has managed. It'll be an endless disquisition of hagiography for a thought-system that should've died over fifty years ago once a few tens of millions died from it.
These neo-Marxists remind me of Thomas Carlyle, an early Victorian social critic. He was very, very, very good at perceiving and understanding the problems experienced and abuse suffered by the laboring and lower classes in an industrializing Britain that was really revving up market capitalism.
But his solutions were fucking awful. No one listened to him. In fact, Parliament ran in the opposite direction. Thankfully.
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