**Links to**: [[Marx]], [[Marx in Motion]], [[Du Bois]], [[C. S. Peirce]], [[Hegel]], [[Necessity]], [[Nietzsche]], [[Schopenhauer]], [[William James]], [[Dao]], [[Communism]], [[Choice]], [[Constraint]], [[Chance]], [[Tychism]], [[Freedom]], [[Free will]], [[McKenzie Wark]], [[Alicia Juarrero]], [[Polycomputation]]. See: [[09 C is for Communism, and Constraint|09 C is for Communism, and Constraint]] for arguments on (non)freedom. Hegel defines freedom as: “being at home with oneself in one’s other” (§24Z 2 [58], Encyclopedia). But, if we may be so blunt, this is quite anti-perspectivalist (see note in: [[Vantagepointillism]]), if we understand Hegel to be the dominating rooster he was. It reminds me of a citation by our old dean at the art academy, when asked if he wanted to sit or stand during a meeting where he was about to be roasted, he said: “I don’t mind, I am comfortable everywhere.” Indeed, he was. >“Hegel notes that feces often show “the greater part of the food unchanged” (Philosophy of Nature §365R), and describes the particular effect that asparagus has on urine (§365Z [401-2]). The assimilation process—despite the totalizing connotations of its name—**does not demonstrate total control over the other**.” Jane Dryden, 2016, p. 19, our emphasis. Also, very Hegelian: >“The concept of freedom here is different to that usually at work in improvisation: rather than a spontaneously available capacity to create ex nihilo, freedom is a cultural achievement that has to generate its own rules and norms, as there is no freedom without norms. Nor is there any way to understand the human without any form of determination.” [[Social Dissonance]], pp. 28-9, [[Mattin]]. [[What gives]]? #todo : Frank Ruda on acting as if everything was lost. Benjamin said about as much, too. %% Comic fatalism (Frank Ruda) as a way to counter ideas of freedom (which is freedom as oppression). He says act as if everything already happened, everything is lost, apocalypse has happened. READ THIS BOOK. ________ The event, in Badiou, or the claims about freedom by Zizek, resemble this: ![[choice heidegger schelling.png]] So, forgetaboutit.