Gross and Conspicuous Error No. 8

Smith, Burn, Thompson

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Thompson: This next gross and conspicuous error is a look at the capitalist mode of thought. It is dedicated to phenomenologicallistic art critics, whoever and wherever they may be. In addition, is it also dedicated, at this same time, to Ludwig Wittgenstein, the noted German philosopher who was responsible for having said, "You cannot be a philosopher and a communist at the same time"

Burn: It is a G&CE to regard language as a classless means of communication Language belongs to the managers Capitalist material relations transfix our social relations into discrete commodities Our individual particularity gets transfixed into reified minds, or self This mind attributes psychoproperties to itself A mad attribution often called "believing" A belief is an approximated correspondence between daft reified mind and the fetishized social reality of commodities Conscious guiding of history by material change gets mystified because Non-sensuous interpretation insidiously transforms us all into tourists Bus tour contemplators of a world not of our own making

Chronology

• Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors
  • Circuit 9

Interpretations

• Same text: "Gross and Conspicuous Error No. 5"