Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.744

   Um if Kant is about subject and object then ficta was about subject and subject. It was much much more about the intersubjective and then Hegel comes back to subject and object in ficta. That impulse um to be above the supremacy of the commodity is as unmistakable as the urge to universal rule. It was an anti ideological impulse only in so far as the world's being in itself confirmed by a conventional unreflected consciousness was seen through as merely manufactured and unfit for self-preservation. Despite the preponderance of the object, the thingness of the world is also phenomenal. It tempt…

   yt/88CFLcDqNak-chris-cutrone-lecture-on-adorno-s-negative-dialectics-2/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.738

   So certainly he doesn't want to do and this is why it's in the dialectics of identity. He doesn't want to do a romantic capital R romantic. You know what Robert Pippen called the romantic recoil from modernity. He doesn't want to do what he calls back to nature. Right? So it says we too finally need to free ourselves from universal coercion just as freedom can come to be real only through coercive civilization and not by way of any back to nature. So when he says object he also means everything that's objectified he also means what has been objectivated to use that language again that we first…

   yt/88CFLcDqNak-chris-cutrone-lecture-on-adorno-s-negative-dialectics-2/transcript.txt

3. 03 · blog0.732

   These are structural reasons why art must resist easy adoption by the market (and, in turn, audiences). It must also resist easy adoption to avoid contradicting its own meaning. If art is aimed against exchangeability and cliché, then it must also be aimed against having its content easily converted into products and clichés. This is why form is primary in understanding art’s ability to undo the effects of reification. It is only through the problematization of the relationship between form and content, and art and its consumption, that the meaning of an artwork can be protected from commodifi…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aesthetics-in-critical-theory.md

4. 04 · yt0.732

   So philosophy might have seemed obsolete to Marx, but we're thrown back on it because we're still in capitalism. So again, capitalism generates a need for philosophy. The question is how we understand that need for philosophy because it is different from the need for philosophy in other historical epochs. the necessity of philosophy or philosophy itself as a necessary form of appearance as a necessary phenomenon in a specific historical moment might be different in capitalism than it had been previously. I think that when we read um Hegel's philosophy of history, the idea that that the ideas t…

   yt/Sj1d-XBs1nQ-chris-cutrone-lecture-on-adorno-s-negative-dialectics-1/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.731

   Thus cultural property claims tend to fix culture, which if anything is unfixed, dynamic, and unstable. (Mezey 2007: 2005) So, not only does the dynamic nature of culture raise metaphysical and epistemological questions about the grounds for cultural property claims, it is moreover inherently at odds with the bonds and boundaries with which the concept of property attempts to saddle it. Thus, cultural property tends to offer a version of fixed cultures attached to bounded groups that is more amenable to the concept of property, but consequently offers a distorted and “anemic” picture of cultur…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-ethics-of-cultural-heritage.md

6. 06 · blog0.729

   That necessity, we have seen, is practical; that is, it’s the necessity of ‘gotta go, right now!’ But if that is the right way to reconstruct Korsgaard’s position, there is a final worry to register, one that we are not yet able to meet, but to which we will return briefly when the time comes to assess the state of play of the field we are surveying. We generally take arguments built around practical necessity to be responsible to and modulated by the urgency and force of the necessity. The point is once again easier to see when we are considering collective agents, so let us take up Korsgaard…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/practical-reason-and-the-structure-of-actions.md

7. 07 · blog0.726

   On a rival and unorthodox interpretation (Finlay 2009), Williams’ claim that practical reasons have an “explanatory dimension” is to be understood not simply as placing a constraint on what can be a reason, but as providing the essential meaning of our thoughts and claims about practical reasons. On this analysis the concept of a ‘reason for action’ just is the concept of an explanation of action, following Davidson. To think that the fact that the Alcove serves onion rings the size of doughnuts is a reason for Caroline to go there, is to think that the fact that the Alcove serves such onion r…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/reasons-for-action-internal-vs-external.md

8. 08 · yt0.725

   You can be a rebel, a punk, an anarchist, a revolutionary, and capitalism will sell you the commodities to express that identity. Chavara's face on a t-shirt, anti- capitalist slogans on expensive sneakers. The form remains the same even as the content changes. You are still consuming. You are still participating in the market. Your rebellion has been packaged and sold back to you. But here is where Zizek's analysis becomes truly disturbing. He argues that the reason we continue to participate is not just passivity or ignorance. It is enjoyment. We get something out of this system, something u…

   yt/oVcko5VM2NQ-slavoj-i-ek-philosophy-to-fall-asleep-to-and-so-on-and-so-on/transcript.txt

9. 09 · blog0.725

   The commodity would not have “use value” if it did not satisfy human wants and needs; it would not have “exchange value” if no one wished to exchange it for something else. And its exchange value could not be calculated if the commodity did not share with other commodities a “value” created by the expenditure of human labor power and measured by the socially necessary labor time that is abstracted from the average concrete labor needed to produce commodities of various sorts. Adorno’s social theory attempts to make Marx’s central insights applicable to “late capitalism.” Although in agreement …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/theodor-w-adorno.md

10. 10 · yt0.724

    What you are buying is an experience. A third place between home and work. A moment of self-care. a lifestyle signifier. The difference between Starbucks and the coffee you could make at home for a fraction of the price is not in the drink. It is in everything that surrounds the drink. The atmosphere, the green logo, the sense that you are part of something. You are buying a fantasy. This is how late capitalism functions. It does not primarily sell products based on their use value. It sells fantasies, identities, symbolic meanings. And this is not a trick that capitalists invented. It is a ne…

    yt/oVcko5VM2NQ-slavoj-i-ek-philosophy-to-fall-asleep-to-and-so-on-and-so-on/transcript.txt