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Ray Brassier on Herbert Marcuse's '5 Lectures' with Acid Horizon

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Is There a Difference Between Surplus and Necessary Repression?

Bertrand Russell: I have just a very fundamental, basic question. There's sort of an extreme carefulness with in both your, your introduction and in lecture two, of not submitting necessity to a pre discursivety that is, let's say, primordial. If we are supposed to understand marcusa on the relationship between exchange and use, then how do we unlock our capacity for siberian positivity? And i think botter can see why this kind of questions is not replicated when it comes to human enjoyment or repression. But what i find interesting is that same carefulness must also be used when it come to anthropogenesis and the technical composition of society.

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