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Category Archives: historical materialism
Luxemburgism and Historical Materialism
I’ve created a new blog, called The Luxemburgist, the inaugural post of which I’ve cross-posted here. While it may seem strange to create a new blog when I hardly publish here anymore, there is reason behind it. Planomenology was conceived … Continue reading
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Tagged historical materialism, Leninism, Luxemburgism
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Reply to Levi on Marx and Normativity
Levi posted a series of responses (1, 2, 3) to my post on Marx and Normativity, to which I owe a long overdue reply. I regret that it has come long after the discussion has grown cold, but finishing my … Continue reading
Normativity, Ideology, and Historicity in the Work of Karl Marx
I posted a comment on Levi Bryant’s recent post responding to some criticisms offered by Pete Wolfendale. You can read the exchange there if you’re interested, but I wanted to focus on something Levi said there, and on a comment … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, political economics, politics
Tagged Brandom, Bryant, communism, historicity, ideology, Marx, Normativity, proletariat, Rationality, science, Wolfendale
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Material Conditions of Philosophical Practice
The conference was an absolute success. The quality of the papers and discussions, the broad range of topics which nonetheless converge in so many productive ways, the enthusiasm, the camaraderie, the tone and atmosphere, all simply astounding. I might do a recap … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, non-phi, politics
Tagged communism, Marx, materialism, normative suture, suspense
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Principles for Historical Materialism
1. If something like the present can be isolated, be it in a wholly artificial fashion, the materiality or substance of that present is the past. Everything existing now is nothing but the coagulation of the past at a given … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, communism, historicity, manifest futurity, Marx
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If We’ve Never Been Modern, We Must Become Modern
Skimming through Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, I’ve noticed a striking omission. The principle thesis of the book is that modernity involves the “work of purification”, which attempts to clarify (or impose) a sharp and exclusive divide between … Continue reading
Class, struggle
Class struggle is not, first and foremost, the struggle between classes, social classes, already constituted as such. Struggle is the ground of such social classes, be they working and owning classes or any other. It is this struggle which, situated within … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, political economics
Tagged capitalism, class struggle, Marx, proletariat, the living, undead labor, work-force
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What is a Constellation?
A constellation is an imaginary, invisible and immaterial relation drawn between real, visible, material things. It is something seen into the world, but not itself in the world; between things, amongst them, but not of them. It is not a … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, Benjamin, constellation, ex-appropriation, exposure, historical materialism, materialism, misuse value, myth, mythic violence, nihilism, ruin, sovereignty
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“From the standpoint of catastrophe”
I’ll be back to regular posting soon, including the Marx posts I’ve promised, but I’ve been very busy lately. In the mean time… Nina Power posts some thoughts on the privileging of ontology in philosophy to the detriment of the … Continue reading
Eliminative Marxism 1: Notes on Eliminativism
I’d intended to participate in an online reading group, proposed by Nate, centered on Chapter 25 of Marx’s Capital Vol. I, “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, and had been preparing some preparatory posts on my reading of Marx, when … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, neuroscience, political theology, politics, speculative realism, utopian science
Tagged Brassier, capitalism, Churchland, eliminativism, exception, Latour, Marx, mythic violence, nihilism, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, sovereignty, speculative realism, suspense
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