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49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Uniqueness of Organic Life

I trace all of this back to a unique feature of organic life, namely that in maintaining itself it creates a surplus of time. And part of what Marx is interested in with the capitalist mode of production shows that we have this capacity to reduce labor time and increase that surplus of Time. So not only that we can understand that's free, but we can develop technologies that increases it quantitatively, but quantity can't be separated from quality. I'm trying to provide both a very rigorous account of what capitalism is regardless of how you would reform it or whether there are any reforms at all possible. The common denominator has been wage labor rather than intelligible as the same form of life? That

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