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Well first of all there's Society of the Spectacle which you should read if you haven't. You also might want to look into the Frankfurt School in general for this kind of topic, although it's somewhat dated at this point. For instance there's various essays on the culture industry.

For something contemporary there's the recent book by Hans-Georg Moeller You and Your Profile which is about how your identity is shaped by creating images of yourself for consumption by other social media users.

For something more controversial and meme core I know Peter Coffin wrote a book on this subject: Custom Reality and You.

Read Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, it will tell you everything you need to know.

Literally read any internal study done by Facebook, they know they're ruining everyone and simply do not care because it gives them profits.

>>6282
You could read LessWrong or read Eliezer Yudkowsky's Sequences if you want to learn about things like rationality and epistemology.

https://www.readthesequences.com/
https://www.lesswrong.com/

Is the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy a good resource for learning philosophy?
https://plato.stanford.edu/

>>8658
yes

Once my sociology teacher told me (if I recall correctly, I may add) that Kant's criticism was responsible for ending the empiricism/rationalism schism, by stating that they can both very much work together in the search for knowledge. But, since then, I haven't seen this idea being brought up at all when talking about him, and even being challenged by some (though these are usually randian tards).

So, what do I make of it? Have I been duped? Is this correct?

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=humanities&subcat=philosophy
just search "open courseware philosophy" stuff like that

All 4 Volumes of Wallersteins: The Modern World System

>>5409
Read Vyshinsky instead.
https://archive.org/details/lawofthesovietst008593mbplenin_capLenin Cap

>>5406
>Obscure
I mean just read Lenin and Stalin's main works as well as Mao and his contemporaries.

As for why some of it is obscure? Because there are pragmatic policies that ignore moralistic outcries that Western Liberals don't like and do their best to suppress or attack if they cannot suppress it.

>>5413
Marx himself intended to write on the history of law as part of his critique of political economy.

Haven't read (big one) but have heard it's THE book covering the Soviet side.

Posting the 4-volume series Rockets and People that was mentioned here >>8064
Boris Chertok was a controls systems designer, one of Korolev's closest colleagues and deputy director at Energia, later on continuing to work at Roscosmos until his death. The English translation was done by Asif Siddiqi, author of Challenge to Apollo >>8070 and published by NASA.

Its been over 20 years since ion thrusters were developed how much longer should it take before rocket engines develop to a point where travelling outside the solar system becomes feasible for standard rockets, I know space isn't all that great but the technology and the advancements in particle physics that could be produced under the conditions of better space travel would be tremendously helpful to people worldwide.
>inb4 billionaire shills, those rockets are made for marketing and use space tech from the 50s that even some 3rd world societies have passed
The current focus of SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc is on optimizing the trip to low earth orbit. This requires high thrust to weight ratio, low ISP engines. What you are asking for is low thrust to weight ratio, high ISP engines for efficient travel in the vacuum of space. Once economical trips to low earth orbit get squared away maybe capitalists will move onto RnD for whacky interplanetary and interstellar engines. The requirements for lifting a rocket out of our thick soupy gravity well, and the requirements for a rocket that works efficiently in space are vastly different. There will never be a single rocket engine that can take a payload from the surface of earth, all the way to mars. The job requires multiple specialized rockets and boosters.
>What about “exotic matter” and using the physical phenomena found in particles on the quantum scale
There are a confirmed thousands of other unused particles and god knows how many physicial phenomenal in them that have been discovered over the past 50 years. But they have low TWR, and high cost at the moment, and aren't suited to atmospheric operation. A Ramjet for in-atmosphere launch could be a viable alternative.

debunking Spinlaunch (yes, yes Thunderf00t is pretentious, ignore that part).

We just finished reading "'Left-wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Lenin, which thus concludes our initial readings of Lenin! Next up we'll be doing Capital v2.

hey, i'm sorry to be asking such a dumb question, but what do reading groups do? Do you all pick up a book and set 5 year plans to finish it and then move on to different books? Or do you exchange books but still require of members to read them? I imagine it helps a lot with finishing to read them and after that discussing the helps better understand them, yes?

>>8710
>Do you all pick up a book and set 5 year plans to finish it and then move on to different books?
That's about right. Reading groups are quite flexible and you could organize one in a myriad of ways, but our method thus far has been: 1) agree collectively on a little reading list, about a subject or author we are interested in 2) start reading 3) meet up regularly (weekly, biweekly) to discuss the previously agreed upon readings 4) at each meeting, schedule the next meeting and decide what must be read until then. This usually results in weekly meetings, in which we talk for a couple of hours about our weekly reading of 30 to 100 pages, depending on the book. A book like Capital requires we take a slower pace, of 30-40 pages a week, but something like Lenin's State and Revolution can be done in a single week if everyone has the time/availability.

>I imagine it helps a lot with finishing to read them and after that discussing the helps better understand them, yes?
That is true. Not only is it helpful in the sense of ensuring everyone is on the same page, and that each is helping each other understand the book better, but it's also good to just come up with critiques and formulate ideas as a group. Friendly debates and so on are quite good to have.

>>8710
>Do you all pick up a book and set 5 year plans to finish it
kek

Are there any pretty girls in your physics classes??

Also here you go, I think this should help
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF6C6594F42ECEE0D

>>8715
*bonk*

>>7017
MECW https://archive.org/details/MarxEngelsCollectedWorksVolume10MKarlMarx

>>7018
I remember an anon made a post a while back about mass-searching the MECW for keywords. But it seems to me that this overlooks the benefits a topical index would provide. At any rate I don't know how to grep search or whatever it would entail, but I can fool with it. Thanks

>>7017
>topical index
we could make one

Marx, Mao, and Mathematics: The Politics of Infinitesimals by Professor Joseph Dauben

bump

>>8071
Don't necro. Post actual content if you're bumping. Embed as an example.

Moishe Postone Capital Class
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdFFnqw07SdhR8gMSG2N0_9HoKl00vQAE

Anyone?

Can you just look up the title of the thesis and author on scihub or a torrent site?

ProQuest is terrible. academic institutions are just a racket to gatekeep information

>>8600
Not sure.

>>8600
I did look it up and found nothing.