More specifically concerning: economics
roundabout
4 March 2024, around 9.40.
Far from being able to satisfy the yearning for immortality by trustfully throwing oneself upon the bosom of the Eternal by an immediate moral and religious act, the individual felt constrained to take a long and circuitous route. —Jacob Burckhardt (The Age of Constantine the Great, trans. Moses Hadas, p. 154) My major reading project […]
moth-eaten notions
5 May 2024, around 4.35.
Minerva and Arachne, engraving by Johann Wilhelm Baur (1641) …a garment becomes a real garment only in the act of being worn; a house where no one lives is in fact not a real house… —Marx (Grundrisse, trans. Martin Nicolaus, p. 91) But truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a […]
fundamentals
7 June 2024, around 7.30.
August Sander, Farmer (ca. 1925) Let us say that what separates the great book from the merely good (or interesting) is that a great book, however it innovates, whatever its oddities, will teach the reader how it is to be read. 1 Grundrisse is not, then, a great book, but it is still in an […]
pseudaphoristica (23)
4 August 2024, around 11.21.
The economical hobby of using pathetic fallacy to achieve the alchemical transformation, not of base metals into gold, but of worth (or value) into meaning.
Citation (79)
8 November 2024, around 7.44.
the ghost of an idea…
Adversaria (29)
31 August 2025, around 4.08.
‘So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish […]
momentous
7 September 2025, around 16.07.
Waiting for the dog to finish her dinner and listening to the sound of her eating, and then to the click of her claws as she wanders toward the back of the apartment in search of praise or reassurance or perhaps another round of dinner. The dishwasher needs to be emptied, and although it is […]
Adversaria (30)
30 September 2025, around 4.02.
‘Some people were in the park pretending it was warm, exercising that necessary Scottish thrift with weather which hoards every good day in the hope of some year amassing a summer’ —William McIlvanney (Laidlaw, 10%) ‘I noted all my findings on index cards. I valued the cards as signifiers of serious scholarship, and boosted my […]