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recommended reading on particular subjects:

• letter to J. Bloch against economism and fatalism, the parallelograms of forces, the individual, the unconscious
• The Materialist Conception of History the individual in its relation to the social, accident to necessity
• Reification what is the reification of social relations? particularly relevant for trans people re: gender and biology

art

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction what is lost and gained, what new stakes are opened up, by the new stage introduced in art production?
• Marx and Engels On Literature and Art a basic introduction
• Leaving the Movie Theater Barthes, short essay about distance and theaters.

epistemology

• On Practice sketch of the stages of cognition in an individual
• On Contradiction movement and development of an object
• Dialectics of the Abstract & the Concrete in Marx’s Capital Ilyenkov, a brilliant longform analysis of two of the most important categories of logic and epistemology