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Note: chatgpt is helpful for quick reminders on basic concepts that I am not familiar with (e.g. here the notion of labour power ala Marx)

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- Kant's move as critiquing something in order to rescue it
- Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger, Derrida etc. as conservators
- Land sees in Nietzche a different approach economic model: not accumulation but wasteful expenditure ("Dionysian economics")

(I'm not very clear on how negation operates ala Derrida etc.)

Other points: Schopenhauer's will (to live) VS Nietzche's will (to power, human as medium to +)

Somehow the way this is structured is so alluring - going back and forth between different points of interest, like riding the gravitational force fields generated by each anchoring point and weaving the thread of the argument throught that. Feels inspiring as a way to write. Even though I don't conciously grasp everything, it's enjoyable - there's a music to it.

Getting back into this (was motivated by a dream I had during an afternoon nap) and am just so thrilled by how well-written it is

This is Tanizaki's Naomi (痴人の愛) on steroids