Currently I’m reading Nina Burton’s ‘Livets tunna väggar’ which translate to something like Walls of Life. It’s a book by a Swedish writer who inherits her mother’s summer house. When she wants to renovate it, she finds all sort of life around and in the house. She uses said life to teach you something about the intellect of various insects and animals, which goes deeper than humans normally think.

It’s a very interesting book that makes me think about non-human life even more. Creatures that are thousands of times smaller than we are have such complex societal structures. Humans have overcommodified animal life for centuries now, seeing them as property and commodities instead of complex and intelligent life forms.

What are you reading?

  • Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I guess you can look at it that way, but this is the kind of stuff you do in management as well.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know anything about management so maybe you’re right, but from the first paragraph it’s pretty clear what the essay is about.

      Before Marx, materialism examined the problem of knowledge apart from the social nature of man and apart from his historical development, and was therefore incapable of understanding the depen- dence of knowledge on social practice, that is, the dependence of knowledge on production and the class struggle.