Beauty is in the streets

Simon Briercliffe

Je participe, tu participes, il participe, nous participons, vous participez, ils profitent – I participate, you participate, he participates, we participate, you participate, they profit. This play on the tables of conjugation that everybody had to learn by rote is the source of the critique of everyday life by Lefebvre, the Situationists, and the students of ’68. We all live out the daily grind – but someone else benefits. (source)

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach.

I never realised that, like party politics, academia has a conference season. At least, March appears to be it which means I’ve ended up with far too much work to do in one go. Never mind. Just a quick one then on the various bits of highly-tangentially-related of reading I’ve been fitting in. I still…

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