Pragmatists abandon dialectics and fail to dream, fail to push beyond the conquest circle (the One-World World), abandon the Undercommons

I was thinking earlier that professionalisation is, well maybe i’m actually just talking about specialisation here - specialisation at least is kind of like abandoning the locally embedded (sub)world for the (sub)world of specialist knowledge, practice, economies (and relationships!), which is non-local, modern liberal ‘onto/auto-encyclopedic’ etc

like i have this sense of having lost and abandoned something in my, it feels a bit weird to say but in some sense at least my capitulation to professional life. at the same time it’s also something that i’ve wanted very much and worked for - but this is still fundamentally an external imperative

and sometimes for me that externality is the brutality of capitalism and wanting to have ‘security’, and sometimes it’s my ‘radical’ political subjectivity that drives me to try to effect change in some way; i guess both are just different kinds of political subjectivity really, forms of aspiring, where markets compel me to play the part of the professional, and my social milieu in a different (positive!) way compels me to play the part of the radical