/edu/ - Education

>>3345
https://invidious.tube/watch?v=JWaukcx-upg
Math arises as a tool to aid humans in changing the material world. Like a shovel or a bulldozer, math too is material.

>>3277
They don't.

Dialectics is a buzzword that should be abandoned.

https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/please-waste-no-time-on-hegel/


https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/a-comment-on-a-lecture-about-hegel/

>>3490
Bitch, stop posting this. I already responded to that shit several times. It's trash.

Evolution isn't real. Read Marx
>Human anatomy contains a key to the anatomy of the ape. The intimations of higher development among the subordinate animal species, however, can be understood only after the higher development is already known.

>>3494
Lmao, he says the opposite

Try it and see
If you have any questions ask and I'm sure we'll be able to bring you up to speed comrade

this is more related to art but I think it's a really interesting image
and I don't have a lot of books but here's a starter :
https://mega.nz/folder/dqZmgQCZ#RgH8dZ0dTfT66S6I8fitcg

Aaaand I'm realizing I probably have a shitton of links bookmarked already
So here what I can find :
https://www.mediafire.com/?i44dwzkf9j9n8#id66154bjgsoy
https://mega.nz/folder/GRwjxLiD#wUkiwGjOaXyI5ajdAwRW6w/folder/ncZAXBYK

>>2045
u r a cool person
thx :D

This is great!

OP here;
Thanks to all for your help, you guys have posted great stuff.
I really haven't been working a lot on my "artistic" skills, COVID kinda' botched my plans for this semester and other crap has popped up, lol

Keep the knowledge coming &lt/3

There there

>>3469
Sounds bad man. How are you holding up?

What is liberal arts? I live in the third world and we only have graphic design, or the academy for fine arts. Looks like some upper echelon academian baited generations out of their money.

>>3469
Bruh just default on your debt

>>3429
Learn how space cameras work. They are coloured but in the same way earth cameras are.
Each "black and white image" is an image capturing a certain spectrum of light, or colour. Multiple images of the same scene are taken with multiple colour cameras, and those images can be compunded into a full colour image.

>>3465
Meant to say "but not in the same way earth cameras are".

>>3463
Why? The probe is still there as a visible pile of scrap up there. Plus taking and then uploading a few Mb of image is not that hard.

>>3463
so was your mom

>>3462
Imagine if the USSR lasted long enough to send probes to the outer solar system

I'm a much faster reader using a big screen than with pocket-sized ereaders. You kids know nothing of pain. I used to read whole books on a shitty CRT…
>>3381
>I bought a remarkable [b]e-ink tablet[/b]
That's what I need! Name of the thing?

>>3383
lol, the name is 'remarkable'. sorry for the confusion, I don't usually use the word 'remarkable'.
https://remarkable.com/

A friend that was learning classic Chinese scripture recommended it to me. I mostly use it for highlighting shit from pdfs. Sometimes I make notes on random subjects.

>>3386
Forgot to add, if you click shop, you can buy the old version if you want it now. I think they said the new version is shipping in October, but I wasn't going to wait so long.

>>621
Smart

>>621
Should have bought The Road to Serfdom as well. But then you'd probably receive a job application from the feds for organizing fascist militias in leftist countries.

>>3358
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/a-comment-on-a-lecture-about-hegel/#respond


Cockshott continues to BTFO Hegelians

>>3369
This is embarrassing and reddit-tier, it's like he's deliberately trying to make materialism look extremely autistic. The problem is not that he reduces everything to matter, which is great, but that he reduces matter itself to the extremely limited pop-science conceptions. In other words he's selling materialism short.
Unironically, reading Hegel is exactly the thing that would have helped him.

>>3369
I had no idea that Taimur Rahman had made a video on Hegel.
I also had no idea that Taimur followed Cockshott's work. Not to aggrandize, but the leftypol community has been instrumental in putting Cockshott's work in the limelight and popularizing it (however mildly) on the internet left.

On the topic of Cockshott's response, there are so many glaring errors, I don't even know where to start. Again, do keep in mind that I have a cursory understanding of Hegel, so a lot of these ideas come from shallow reading of secondary sources.
>These ideas are not relied upon by any of the contemporary sciences.
This is scientism. It is basically ignoring philosophy of science, which is very important and is one of the things that is gravely missing from modern science. And Hegel absolutely BTFOs science as a totalizing venture of specific fields precisely because they take as supposition the limits of their study. They must isolate un-isolatable phenomena in order to study them, and hence are forever doomed to not get a complete picture. And, further, science is philosophy's bitch, science's foundation depends on philosophy, not the other way around.

>Logic can only occur where matter is so configured as to perform logical operations, conjunctions, disjunctions negations etc.
I'm not sure I agree with this characterization. It is a weird one that IMO characterizes logic as a physical process, rather than a system that exists in different contexts. What I mean is that if true, then it can also be said that physics doesn't exist in nature, it can only occur where matter is configured to perform physics. Which is true to some extent, but also doesn't really explain what physics is, and makes this weird characterization of physics just being a mental masturbation with no relation to reality.

>But that is because it is advantageous to the evolutionary survival of organisms to be able to react to their environment
This is some teleology of evolution or some shit. It is ironic that he says "No biologist thinks that there are essences" then says something that implies an essence moving evolution forward. I really dislike this interpretation of evolutionary biology. He just says this as this were a scientific fact. Again, philosophy of science coPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3375
>the leftypol community has been instrumental in putting Cockshott's work in the limelight
Don't be silly. Look up when TANS was written. Look up when the translations of TANS were made. That was all long before 8chan. Cockshott has made acquaintances in Germany, China etc. over the decades and we got nothing to do with that. The guys at Monthly Review who are publishing How the World Works also have known Cockshott for decades I'm sure.
>>Logic can only occur where matter is so configured as to perform logical operations, conjunctions, disjunctions negations etc.
>I'm not sure I agree with this characterization. It is a weird one that IMO characterizes logic as a physical process
It's just consistent materialism.
>>The great danger is that young people’s minds will get stuck in a time warp,
>In other words "Don't read philosophy, it will make you get stuck in a time warp" This is absurd.
There are only so many hours in a day. Time spent reading Hegel is not time spent learning anything about the developments in the field of physics over the past 100 years.

>>3377
>There are only so many hours in a day.
I don't disagree with that. If he said that Hegel wasn't necessary, or that there might be more fruitful reading for a leftist, I'd agree wholeheartedly, but he's not doing that here. He's saying that Hegel has nothing of value, and hence shouldn't be studied.
>Don't be silly. Look up when TANS was written.
True, I concede and agree.

-Fascism is capitalism that tries to snuff out class struggle by killing communists and promoting "class collaboration" aka porky fucks the proles over and they don't fight back.
-Some examples post 1945 would be maybe Spain, Chile, South Korea and Taiwan.
-Economics. It depends but there's always mass privatization, big public works projects and promoted self reliance. High military spending too obviously.
-Yes fascist countries can be imperialist, undoubtedly. See Italian invasion of Ethiopia or WwII for proof.

>>3273
Other than kinda disagreeing with your post as a whole, I have to ask why use the term reactionary anarchism? I don't see how that has any relation to anarchism as a concept whatsoever, in any form. The only fascists that could be called reactionary anarchist would be those inspired by Mason's Siege, such as Atomwaffen, who see Hitler as proof that state based fascism is unworkable.

>>3350
>The only fascists that could be called reactionary anarchist would be those inspired by Mason's Siege, such as Atomwaffen
Precisely. I call it reactionary anarchism because it is specifically these kinds of groups (as well as groups like ISIS or Soviet-Afghan war era Taliban) that are the purest strain of it. As I said, in my view Nazi Germany is at best a hybrid. In the end it was a porky project and the NSDAP schizos just were the stooges for it. Also they undeniably had some socialist influence in their party politics, so even NSDAP on its own wasn't purest reaction.

>Other than kinda disagreeing with your post as a whole
Could you elaborate why?

>What is Fascism? (or who best defined it)
Fascism is a system of government characterized by:
1) rigid one-party dictatorship
2) forcible suppression of opposition
3) private economic enterprise under centralized government control
4) belligerent nationalism
5) racism
6) militarism

>Some post-1945 historical examples of Fascism.
USA.

&ltRigid one-party dictatorship?
Check. (Republicans and Democrats are the same party: the party of Capital. They only present the illusion of being opposed to each other as theatre for the masses.)
&ltforcible suppression of opposition?
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3365
This should be updated to say "rigid one-party/anocratic dictatorship" so it includes the two-party dictatorship of the usa

How do I become a /buddhist/?
Any good introductions

what is your favorite book?

what influenced you most, the book?

what do you like about book?

what are you planning to book?

what are you reading now, book?

Anyone ever heard of Wizardrous?

>>3253
I'm reading the Faerie Queen and its really fucking good like goddamn, but its making me feel like an absolute brainlet, I have to keep stopping and rereading bits because I miss the implication of a line and misunderstand what happens then only cotton on a few stanzas later when something happens that's out of line with what I think is happening, I can't seem to understand poetry unless I speak it out loud for some reason, so I'm also destroying my throat reading this thicc bitch