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3 timestamped hits 3 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-12-16, day precision Aliases: picassos

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Picasso

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Modernity Needs A Scapegoat (2025-12-16, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Modernity Needs A Scapegoat; Kill The Cult Of The Self; Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic.

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Key Notes

Lecture interpretation of modern art.

diagnosis

Jiang reads Picasso's cubist portrait as visually representing Jung's theory of the divided self.

Timestamped Evidence

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...Friedrich Schumann for it also had a major influence on Pablo Picasso. Okay. And you can see it from his painting, Head of a..."

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Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

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