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I want to communicate that I did not write this text, merely narrated it, the author’s name is Sheila Kunkle. At any rate, thank you for your response and do stick around, I intend to do each of the 63 entries in this manuscript and they’ll all be in the 10-15 range.

There are certainly a number of ways to consider the “madhouse” confession of a murderer; to what degree that bears on his works is its own discourse and interesting in its own sense.

@@addammadd the kids, the drunk and the crazy don't lie

Ad hominem challenges to Althusser's work are like spitting in the ocean because you feel hot. Just swim, guy. He's a dead, spouse-murdering loony who happened to have done some entirely unrelated, brilliant academic work.

Would you have liked a link or to actually have them read out like the rest of the text?

The plan, and I’m pretty damn sure I can handle it, is to release one of the 63 entries per week till I’ve done them all.

@@addammadd Damn! That’s a project! Really love getting these bite-sized so I can digest one a week, i’ll be along for the ride! Love the work!

@kenillla thanks a ton Ken. Love to read any insights you have under any given topic too.

There is no big Order.

Totally welcome!

Thanks for the feedback! I’m happy folks dig this; I think these are super useful.

working the next entry as i write this

@@addammaddfudge yeah! 👍🏻

I’m glad it’s helpful.

OMG that’s a hilarious take.

@@addammadd it's one of my fav episodes that I can remember.

That reminds me of Simpsons episode where Flanders lost his house and people built him new one. And there was a corridor which was becoming smaller and smaller.

It’s done TTS because it makes it possible to do 2x without any loss of formants meaning you can literally listen to it at the speed closer to what you read and not lose any ability to distinguish words. I appreciate your critique however aesthetics aren’t super important to the overall project.

I am so grateful for this insightful, relevant commentary. Thank you.

You never experienced communism. "Communism," aka classless society and withering of the state, the stage of development after socialism. That is why socialism is a transitional stage towards communism. Sadly, the eastern block became victims of social-imperialism after the revisionist coup of the USSR. That is why Eastern block countries/cuba never developed any real industry as a result, they were dependent on the USSR economically and were literal puppets(ussr supervised domestic and foreign policy), the revisionist also releasing nazi collaborators co-oping as communist didn't help either. The socialist experiment history witnessed was stalin's USSR, enver hoxha's Albania, and mao's China to an extent. What is revisionism? A revising of Marxism-leninism fundamental principles. Revisionism is the stage of bourgeoisie/capitalist thinking in the vanguard(communist party) of the proletariat. Basically Yugoslavia, Trotskyism, euro communism, and modern china.

A careful examination of this text and its footnotes show this to be much more of an emotional polemic than the scholarly work Rockhill has shown himself capable of writing. I think this piece reflects poorly on his institution and his own body of work and I expect that in the years to follow, he’ll come to regret publishing it.

@@addammadd I think you may be wrong. Rockhill's findings and logic are sound. The words and actions of Zijek and all the theorists he criticizes are also evident. It is enough to watch a few videos to understand what kind of an enemy of socialism Zijek is. People like Foucault, Adorno, and Zijek serve the established capitalist order under the guise of leftism. Zijek is a real mascara among these. (By the way, it is unfair to criticize and intimidate Rockhill based on the university where he works.) If you would like more details, you can read Rockhill's interview in the recently published Monthly Review journal.

@@fikriyazc4305I realized somewhere around the fifth paragraph that my response to you is one that I’ve been thinking about writing ever since I first read this piece. I’ll finish and then make a video. Perhaps you’ll watch and find something useful in it.

Thank you so much for reading!

i mean, most of us wait for them to get a bit older first...

Love to. The software I use is called Descript. It’s actually not meant as a stand-alone TTS program but is a fully fledged podcast/video production program that also does text to speech. What’s super cool about it is that it can transcribe any audio (including from a video) and then you can edit the media by interacting with the text instead of only using a timeline. I did an editing job the other day, cutting down an hour and a half into a pretty solid half hour, only took me an hour to do. Usually a task like that could be anywhere from 3-6 hours.

Lol I remember that guy! Good question, I’ll answer but first, know that you can adjust the speed settings of TH-cam videos. Drop it to .75 and see how that works for you. Answer: this was produced largely to help my wife and her PhD sociology cohort get through a heavy theory workload on a tight timeline. The purpose is to provide a kind of aural pace-car as they read along with a physical copy of the text for the first pass. Going deeper: I find (as do many) that this kind of work takes multiple reads to grok. The first reading just needs to happen so you can grab the flow of the author; the subsequent readings provide the - following your metaphor - mastication. Bear in mind that you tend to read much faster than most people would do out loud; hence I set the speed of this text-to-speech production to what works best for her/them. By the way, this was entirely accomplished with synthetic text to speech, you are not hearing human voices, but a program with my voice-print essentially deepfaking me.

@@addammadd I appreciate your response. I completely understand now based on your reasoning. Also you can tell it's not a human speaking but thanks for that as well.

Thank you so much. I put a ton of effort into it. My next one will be an article of Slavoj Žižek’s on Zionism.

​@@addammadd Deleuze is the best philosopher, imo. Thank you :)