Desire and Fate

‘First Grub then Ethics’ or ‘First Ethics then Grub.’ A Note on the Relevance of Brecht’s Apothegm in the Age of Woke

Brecht famous prescription, “First grub, then ethics,” would simply not fly in today’s Academic-Cultural-Philanthropic Complex. Yes, there too the rhetoric is often anti-capitalist, but it is based on a praxis diametrically opposed to Bre…