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give or assign a value to, especially a higher value: "The prophets valorized history"

65

Ethics, III, 9 states that, fundamentally, it is in desire’s own investments that the valorisation of things originates

on Spinoza

—p.65 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

Ethics, III, 9 states that, fundamentally, it is in desire’s own investments that the valorisation of things originates

on Spinoza

—p.65 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
notable
6 years, 9 months ago

(adjective) expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty

(verb) to divert the expression of (an instinctual desire or impulse) from its unacceptable form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable

71

treating them as a metamorphosis (by sublimation) of the fundamental demand for love

on demands for love within social universes

—p.71 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

treating them as a metamorphosis (by sublimation) of the fundamental demand for love

on demands for love within social universes

—p.71 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

(adjective) of, relating to, or appearing in the course of ontogeny (the origination and development of an organism) / (adjective) based on visible morphological characters

72

there is no need to pass through an ontogenetic hypothesis in order to account for demands for love addressed within social universes such as employment

—p.72 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

there is no need to pass through an ontogenetic hypothesis in order to account for demands for love addressed within social universes such as employment

—p.72 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

relating to French philosopher Louis Althusser, known for his work on Marxism and poststructuralism

74

a subject remaining ‘separated from itself’, in the mysterious form of being ‘a stranger to oneself’ that pre-Althusserian readings of Marx sometimes revisit.

—p.74 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

a subject remaining ‘separated from itself’, in the mysterious form of being ‘a stranger to oneself’ that pre-Althusserian readings of Marx sometimes revisit.

—p.74 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

(adjective) affording a general view of a whole / (adjective) manifesting or characterized by comprehensiveness or breadth of view / (adjective) presenting or taking the same or common view

76

Such complexity poses a challenge to synoptic presentation

—p.76 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

Such complexity poses a challenge to synoptic presentation

—p.76 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

the postulate that markets are organised most effectively by private enterprise and that the private pursuit of accumulation will generate the most common good; accomplished by opening international markets and financial networks, and downsizing the welfare state

79

The neoliberal enterprise now seeks full alignment and the annulation of the drift

not a bad definition of neoliberalism tbh (though obvously incomplete)

—p.79 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

The neoliberal enterprise now seeks full alignment and the annulation of the drift

not a bad definition of neoliberalism tbh (though obvously incomplete)

—p.79 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
notable
6 years, 9 months ago

Hayek's term for the idea that all institutions in society were or should be "deliberately constructed by somebody"; "constructivists … habitually argue on the assumption of omniscience," rather than acknowledging, as Hayek does, the necessarily limited character of human knowledge in society

94

who would deny the existence of constructivist projects of desire

the footnote after constructivist refers to Hayek's "The Persistence of Constructivism in Current Thought" in "Law, Legislation, and Liberty"

—p.94 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

who would deny the existence of constructivist projects of desire

the footnote after constructivist refers to Hayek's "The Persistence of Constructivism in Current Thought" in "Law, Legislation, and Liberty"

—p.94 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

(noun) an ultimate end (from Greek)

95

Utterly without a telos, it is so vast and, crucially, so diffuse, so devoid of a centre

on the process of self-affection by society

—p.95 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

Utterly without a telos, it is so vast and, crucially, so diffuse, so devoid of a centre

on the process of self-affection by society

—p.95 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

97

that intermediate historical phase of larval and inchoate individualism

—p.97 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago

that intermediate historical phase of larval and inchoate individualism

—p.97 Joyful Auto-Mobiles (Employees: How To Pull Their Legs) (49) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 9 months ago