Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/ Turning the tables. Perhaps we imagine our primary conundrum as a species relates to the immutability of political economy or whatever name we give a totalizing foreground with its unshakable priorities and demands holding us captive, at a distance from life and each other.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Nov 2014

@Gestwa “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings” - Ursula La Guin, #NationalBookAwards.

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Quoted by@billymoose Amen, Billy. Hence, just now, the death of the hegemony of reification, certainly as it relates to the totalitarian Spectacle of political economy. I'm always profoundly struck by how difficult it is to describe such things. So, what will survive the separation of Life and Law?Quoted by@ceisenstein Yes, there is another way. A better way. @UniteThePoorQuoted by@danadonnelly Was it Cannes? I forget now. But I do recall the bankers bringing in sex workers in motor launches. Deal-making.