Walter Logeman: Journal
I’ve been writing here about my close reading of Moreno’s writing on Marx and revolution. I’ve been reading Who Shall Survive and other sources.
I’ve stopped posting chapters here as I’m editing in Google Drive
See my whole effort here.
That link is auto updated with every edit!!
… spontaneity-creativity [is the] propelling force in human progress, beyond and independent from … socio-economic motives…
(Moreno, 1978; xiv, xv)
This is from the same paragraph in Who Shall Survive? I used as the basis for my last post. The passage asks question: What is the propelling force in human progress?
Marx and Moreno differ. Moreno is adamant it is spontaneity-creativity. He implies that for Marx it is socio-economic motives. Continue reading “Marx in Who Shall Survive? 02 – Human agency”
I’m writing a monograph.
I’ll write a blog post for every mention of Marx and make comments..
Here is the Intro. Followed by the References
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Marx in Moreno’s Who Shall Survive?
About this Monograph
I aim to explore every mention of “Marx” in Who Shall Survive? (Moreno, 1978). Continue reading “Marx & Moreno Monograph”
Here is a follow on post to an earlier one Homo faber
What makes us human – what is the one thing?
Humans are creators: Homo faber. Continue reading “The relations of creativity. Moreno & Marx”
One of my favourite posts in this blog is called Whole Earth Catalog – 50 Years. Read through to the end of it to find the gem, in my opinion, which is to understand the sad contortion of humanity’s destiny with the creation of the Whole Earth Catalog. That subtitle, Access to Tools, is so significant, more significant than Stuart Brand realised or that any of us realised at the time.
I hope this turns up in Twitter, and you like the sketch I found.
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Later: Yes it did! Now, do I really want that?
Maybe, but nothing automatic.
My reflections on this go way back:
Recently I the podcasts I listened to all came up with discussions about dialectics.
Hari Kunzru, Into the Zone .
You will get introduced to ‘Teddy’ i.e. Theodor Adorno.
Its always sunny in the dialectic
Look on the bright side! In a country obsessed with positivity, Hari traces the path of exiled German intellectual Theodor Adorno to sunny California, where he gets stuck in traffic with the British writer Geoff Dyer. How this positivity relates to church and state? Turns out there’s a lot to complain about.
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Revolutionary Left Radio
for some political clout.
The Principal Contradiction: Applying Dialectical Materialism
Torkil Lauesen joins Breht to discuss his newest book “The Principal Contradiction”. In this discussion, Torkil and Breht discuss dialectical materialism, how it is applied in real world situations, and the role that contradiction plays in it all. In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of robberies in Denmark, netting very large sums which were then sent on to various national liberation movements in the Third World. Following their capture in 1989, Torkil would spend six years in prison. While incarcerated, he was involved in prison activism and received a Masters degree in political science. He is currently a member of International Forum, an anti-imperialist organization based in Denmark.
Find more of his writings HERE
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The Partially Examined Life.
For a through philosophical analysis by people who can’t make up their minds about anything.
Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
On Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), plus Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” (1963). How does the entertainment industry affect us? Adorno (armed with Marx and Freud) thinks that our “mass culture” is imposed from the top down to lull us into being submissive workers.
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OK, listen to the lot and makes some comments!!
