I wrapped up note-taking for Karatani’s Transcritique (about which I wrote a little last week). Suffice it to say that this book has firmed up many convictions that were already starting to form about Marx and his critique in Capital, but for which I didn’t yet have external anchors. I now need to cast a net out to find what has been written in Karatani’s wake (in English), as the book is almost thirty-five years old at this stage (originally published as essays in 1993, translated into English in 2003).
I also read the first half or so of Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving—although the copy I have is in Italian, and therefore is titled L’arte d’amare. I packed this book after finding it in my wife’s parents’ bookshelf as a precaution, as I don’t like taking my reMarkables to the beach, and ended up flipping through the first 50 or 60 pages. I don’t imagine that this book will be essential to my next chapter, but it broadly sits in the literature I’m treating (Marxism, psychoanalysis; and therefore the Frankfurt School), and I may yet finish it and/or return to it.