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Cahiers Charles Fourier #36 - Les presses du réel (book)
Ben Stemper
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PhD candidate in History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala University, looking at 19th century socialist eco-utopias/dystopias. Interested in history of anarchism and u/dystopianism more broadly, and specifically Joseph Déjacque. (He/Him)
![He should haved added "and these four ages repeat themselves forever." The ancient Egyptians understood this so well they worshipped the Phoenix, of the old Phoenix's ashes, who burned himself, arose the new one. Further, who can prove that these four ages have not already been repeating themselves since time immemorial, who can prove to us that before the world's last embrace [by the serpent destroyer] humanity did not already [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onw3zolyx6nofwysxrod7kh3/bafkreicsrtoghyu66wdarzthqpbfsdzlijhno2aagte3ltnqdizt33brn4)
![You closed this book without understanding it. Did I not tell you from the outset? [...] Civilization is not yet advanced enough, we are merely at the dawn of things, I say it again, this book is not written for this century, nor for you. Other times will come when humans, terrorized by the prodigies happening under its eyes, will understand it, and become terrified.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onw3zolyx6nofwysxrod7kh3/bafkreidrxg3hlqdvsw74n7sg3rwhqavztuokzs2cmyw2j7l4pm4rzphnqy)
