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3M Girl Theory

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 3M Girl Theory   **********************************         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%                    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$                                   ############################ "She is, literally, the polaroid of perfection" -Beginning of Clueless TV series theme "One doesn't need sunglasses to see that such shimmering water is also the dazzle of a late liquid capitalism, which has flooded the world with its flows" -Zach Blas, "Is the Internet a Urinal?" (in I was Raised on the Internet, ed Omar Kholeif) Willendorf Venus   3D printable model of Willendorf Venus Murakami's 3M girl, viewed from rear 3M Girl, frontal view   Sublimation is not the same thing as assuming a physiognomy, because any physiognomy (face/mask/faciality) I "assume" (by identifying mysel...

Anchored in Marxism

Marxism is primarily concerned with defining and evaluating "work" qua alienation. This is as non-controversial a provisional definition as I can muster for a theoretical datum that is already extremely variegated. It is necessary to dispel a certain fog or stupor characterized by Derrida as spectral, all those fever-dreams of revolution must be purified and worked-through (inasmuch as we are concerned with a communist "hypothesis" whose implementation has so far apparently failed). Those of us involved with politics grow fatigued with variegated poltroonery and rampant corruption. One might say that of other social theories, but I am qualifying Marxism as being concerned with a theory of work in the sense that the theory of work it offers combines multiple philosophical idioms and fields into one, making its particular way of conceptualizing work robust enough to include numerous phenomenological, existential, epistemological and, above all, dialectical component...