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an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

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capitalism itself was described in a Manichean manner: on one side the positive pole, the proletariat, the liberating class; on the other side the positive pole, capital

—p.146 Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline of Humanity? (131) by Jacques Camatte
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6 years, 4 months ago


Pirsig's work is, like so much of classic American literature, Manichaean.

formed of dualities

—p.144 Uneasy Rider (142) by George Steiner
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6 years, 10 months ago


BUT JESUS WAS NOT the only Christ. Manichaeism teaches that the world is divisible into spiritual light and material darkness, making it fairly evident which to reject

—p.550 A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen
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7 months, 1 week ago


because it works by implementing Manichaeistic strategy

—p.149 by Percival Everett
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11 months, 1 week ago


Gordon calls this piece Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake), and it’s hard to imagine a more Manichaean bill. It’s a Hollywood vision of Catholic good and evil

—p.247 Part III: Notes Toward a Syllabus (191) by J. Hoberman
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2 years, 8 months ago


we must defend a Manichaean, antagonistic form of Evil, a form of genius, a form of the reversibility of each

—p.122 by Jean Baudrillard
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6 years, 3 months ago


Pace Wallerstein, the final Manichaean battle between Davos and Porto Alegre is not about to happen in the foreseeable future

—p.36 Introduction (1) by Wolfgang Streeck
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6 years, 6 months ago

under capitalism, it is essentially driven and shaped by what Karl Polanyi has characterized as an almost Manichaean battle between a ‘movement’ towards liberalization and ‘counter-movements’ for social stabilization, or for collective political control over markets and the direction of social change

on politics

—p.208 How to Study Contemporary Capitalism? (201) by Wolfgang Streeck
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6 years, 6 months ago


a Manichaeism of utility

—p.175 The Reader in Exile (164) by Jonathan Franzen
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7 years ago


fantasy's pathetically imbecilic manichean oppositions between Good and Evil, Us and (a foreign, contagious) Them are effective on the largest possible geopolitical stage.

—p.130 This Movie Doesn't Move Me (127) by Mark Fisher
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5 years, 3 months ago


it is a sort of Manichaean melee, cast under the eyes of a third Onlooker

—p.40 Martians (38) by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 8 months ago


since reality is never Manichean enough, fables have to do the requisite ideological heavy lifting

—p.41 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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5 years, 4 months ago


The Manichaean opposition between Good and Evil lay at their foundation: Evil would be wiped away, eradicated, and replaced by Good

—p.34 by Byung-Chul Han
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4 years, 9 months ago


it is through such a 'Manichean' violence, symmetrical to the enemy's violence, that the oppressed achieve the awareness of their own strength.

—p.146 Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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5 years, 2 months ago


Marxist convergence with the negative theology of hell, as well as of Heaven, is not Manichean: it is apophatic precisely in that it abjures any secularised symmetry of Good and Evil, for social totality.

—p.138 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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5 years, 4 months ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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(I still stand by that judgment, though not with nearly the same Manichean fervor)

asserting that the ETA parts of IJ aren't as good as the Don Gately parts

—p.17 An Interview with Tom Bissell (13) by Tom Bissell
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6 years, 7 months ago


This Manichean view fits nicely with our already existing assumptions

on TI's corruption report (rich countries do well, poor countries do badly)

—p.222 Seven (220) by Jason Hickel
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6 years, 4 months ago


various dualisms, like Gnosticism and Manichaeism--wherein God is opposed by and does battle with a separate, satanic source of evil, or is rivalled by a false god, a demiurge

—p.138 Robert Alter and the King James Bible (128) by James Wood
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6 years, 7 months ago


This is a very peculiar form of heresy. It's a form of Manichaeanism. And I call myself a Manichaean, a rather baffled Manichaean

—p.60 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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7 months, 3 weeks ago


The collaboration of Friedrich Engels (1820–85) with Marx over forty years rules out any Manichean distinctions (e.g. between Marx the ‘good dialectician’ and Engels the ‘bad materialist’)

—p.109 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 6 months ago

The Point Issue 14
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The Point Issue 14
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The Point Issue 14
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Manichean satire and incredible outrage

—p.7 On Satire (5) missing author
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6 years, 4 months ago


When the enemy is separated from you by a barrier of fire, you have to judge him as a whole, as the incarnation of evil; all war is a form of Manicheism.

—p.54 For Whom Does One Write? (50) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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6 years, 4 months ago


The usual Manichaean portrayal of the digital world is "new versus old". Crowdsourcing is "new," for instance, while salaries and pensions are "old." This book proposes pushing what is "new" all the way instead of part of the way.

except he doesn't ... not all the way ...

—p.20 A Simple Idea (19) by Jaron Lanier
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6 years, 5 months ago