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Originally Posted by roachboy
bg: that's a very nice post. thanks.
check out castoriadis' "the imaginary institution of society"...
i worked with cc for quite a while in the 90s and still do extensive research/other stuff with his writing, so pm me if you want more infotainment.
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The Toronto Public Library only carries his
World in Fragments and
Crossroads in the Labyrinth.
I'm intrigued but I can't justify spending $30+ to buy
The Imaginary Institution of Society (as meaty a volume as it is). I'm on a really tight budget. What are these other books of his?
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
—Leonardo da Vinci
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—"Burnt Norton," Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot