India says it has agreed with China to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff.
The process of abstraction was merely an illusion. It works so long as the west possess the means to command the labor of other regions, which was accomplished by making their currencies the world reserve currencies (the dollar and euro together make up like 90% of international trade) and foreign direct investment.
The flaw of postmodern theory is that 1. All symbols exist in the real world and thus can never be separated from reality and real processes and 2. You can't eat symbols. Human life remains governed by material reality and not symbols.
The process of abstraction was merely an illusion. It works so long as the west possess the means to command the labor of other regions, which was accomplished by making their currencies the world reserve currencies (the dollar and euro together make up like 90% of international trade) and foreign direct investment.
The flaw of postmodern theory is that 1. All symbols exist in the real world and thus can never be separated from reality and real processes and 2. You can't eat symbols. Human life remains governed by material reality and not symbols.
That's an interesting proposal. I'm keen to read more along these lines. I'm a fan of Milikan's Beyond Concepts. Got any other recommended reading?
Maybe you should start with Louis althusser's work, like ideology and ideological state aparatuses