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    Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination

    Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Jun 19, 2026 · 47 min
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    The philosophers of the Frankfurt School practiced a technique called negative dialectics, where concepts are defined as much by what you can't say about them as what you can . Appropriately, the Frankfurt School has ended up defined by what you can't say about them. You can't say that they invented a new form of left-wing thought called Cultural Marxism. This would be (according to Wikipedia)…

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