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The Universal and The Particular

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Is That What Unites Us?

Harris: Modern social forms like twitter are make there's something in them conducive to particulars politics, ric eis. You can't resist capital through the particular because what capital does is reduce everyone to their particularity and tell them there is no universal,. I that's the whole brain of it. Harris: The great thing about the three great late eighteenth century revolutions was that they had this idea that that what united us could be universal. And not just coming together under some kind ofk we're not contracted together, even that social contract.

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