236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)
This Machine Kills
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What Is a Historical Materialist Approach to the Book?
I want to talk a little bit. You have talked about Palo Alto as a history of clash juggle in a lot of ways, right? And then this is a very much historical materialist book, which is why I think we've all deeply connected with it. To think about life this way is not to surrender to predetermination only by understanding how we're made use of can we start to distinguish ourselves from our situations. People aren't puppets and to pull a purpose a person is to create the conditions for rebellion. Maybe we're more like butterflies, pinned, live and wriggling onto histories collage.
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