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Critical Theory Working Group

ANNOUNCEMENT: On WEDNESDAY (5/20) at 7:30 PM Eastern US Time we will be hosting a meeting in our Discord server to present and discuss a newly translated text by Georg Lukács. Please visit our Patreon for the (free) invite link to the Discord and additional info www.patreon.com/posts/158506...

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what we perceive as a sequence of events in history is one single catastrophe which keeps piling upon wreckage upon wreckage hurled at our feet, playboy

Anatarah, Mac, and Re return once more to the realm of science studies. This time it is to discuss the indomitable Peter Damerow and the Max Planck history of science’s program of historical epistemology via their book Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking.

We discuss the usage and development of (reflective) abstractions, the similarities between Piaget and Hegel, and finally the genesis of the number concept. Along the way, we discuss Damerow's theory of writing and language as well as his concept of historiogenesis.

Happy Pride Month! Today we remember Hans-Jürgen Krahl, the openly gay critical theorist and leader of the New Left student movement in Germany who tragically died in 1970 at just 27 by a car accident. A translation of his text "Ontology and Eros" will appear [...] 1/2