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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-16 at 20:04

Ideas I am playing around with for a new project. Realist political philosophy, imagination, design, and AI infrastructure. This might get messy.

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Written by slwr on 2025-01-16 at 20:08

@kaeru oh, curious about that Geuss book!

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-16 at 20:13

@entreprecariat an absolute mind-bomb. One of the most impactful reads of the past couple of years for me. I think you'll find some affinities between his realism and your notion of disillusion.

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Written by slwr on 2025-01-16 at 20:17

@kaeru ok i buy it

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-16 at 20:23

@entreprecariat Geuss is also just an incredible writer. The way he builds arguments is a thing of beauty. Complex ideas delivered in a deceptively simple manner.

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Written by John :hacker_b: on 2025-01-17 at 08:05

@kaeru @entreprecariat I've been eying his Not Thinking Like a Liberal.

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-17 at 08:56

@jboy @entreprecariat also quite good, probably my second fave of his after Real Politics https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4884745100

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Written by John :hacker_b: on 2025-01-17 at 09:14

@kaeru thanks! I was drawn to it because think I it would pair well with the more abstract arguments developed by Jaeggi in Critique of Forms of Life, which provides the framework with which I'm approaching my current project.

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-18 at 08:04

@jboy perhaps, although you might also want to look at his Idea of Critical Theory, which explains his take on “ideology critique” (that’s next on the docket for me)

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Written by Koos Looijesteijn on 2025-01-16 at 20:27

@kaeru hah the "It's Time To Imagine Harder" title alone makes me want to read it. The only thing that's holding me back is that I checked on goodreads what others say about it and the only review is ... yours

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Written by Koos Looijesteijn on 2025-01-16 at 20:43

@kaeru it looks amazing though!

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Written by Kars Alfrink 🟥 on 2025-01-16 at 21:12

@koos that’s because it’s self-published, fairly recent, and niche. I had to ask the Goodreads librarians to add it.

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