• Garfunkel@lemmy.ca
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    I highly recommend The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault, it is the magnum opus of contemporary philosophy and critical theory in terms of the phenomelogies of power.

    Really helped me conceptualize politics at this moment.

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        Oui monsieur, my bad edited it. As someone who graduated in stem, I have a very easy time understanding natural or technical or economical causes and effects but loathe it when another person in my field speaks on politics or social groups since they almost always come off as bigoted or ignorant (often both).

        I ve therefore been interested in the social sciences and humanities for a while as they are a pleasure to discover. I find philosophy and critical theory to be the best guides to understanding realities that fall outside of the bounds of one s rationality and Foucault’s concepts explain politics better than anyone else (aside maybe from Deleuze and Guittari in A Thousant Plateaus).

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          I think we have similar aspirations. I’m a stemer for the work and also just antisocial computer fetish, but I look at the humanities and their real discussions and wish we could have those conversations.

          My field has become so financialized that we basically have a capitalist minder in any conversation that might approach philosophy, even if you’re sitting alone, the daemon is there with you.

          I’d love to see the day where we clean house and boot the libertarian techbro moneymen out.