Episode 32 - The Dart and The Crotch
An entire podcast episode from just three pages of Moby-Dick? You'd better believe it.
How do you make killing a whale more efficient? Give the labourers the luxury of free time! Melville suggests efficiency improvements for the capitalist machine in a way that Marx himself would probably describe. The inherent conflict, the dialectic, oh my!
Digressions, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, meta-jokes about meta-jokes, the crotch is a notch.
This episode is the discussion about chapters 62 and 63 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Dart and The Crotch.
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