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Category Archives: political economics
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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Middlesex Philosophy Department Downsized
Many of you will have now heard about the despicable conduct of Middlesex University, and specifically the Dean of Arts and Education Ed Esche, in having cut the entirety of their philosophy department. Information is abounding, so here are just … Continue reading
Posted in political economics, the real world, Uncategorized
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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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“Neurology Death Cult”
“For just as the phenomenon of death indexes an anomalous zone in the conceptual fabric of the manifest image – the point at which our everyday concepts and categories begin to break down, which is why it remains a privileged … Continue reading
Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels
Man Coporate. He absorbs, enfolds, encompasses, and makes the world his own. He will do more; he will penetrate the confines of space, and make it deliver up its secrets and power, for Mind, the Child of the great Oversoul … Continue reading
Posted in experimental strategies, futurology, historical materialism, political economics, utopian science
Tagged anthropic impasse, Badiou, capitalism, class struggle, communism, control, corporatism, decay, Engels, Gillette, immanence, proletariat, science, socialism, threshold, utopia, utopiation, xenoeconomics
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“A mind of its own”
Steve Shaviro, brilliant as usual, on Marxism vs Latour’s actor-network theory: I am sympathetic to Latour’s insistence that networked social processes cannot be explained in terms of global categories like “capital,” or “the social” – because these categories themselves are … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, neuroscience, political economics, politics
Tagged anthropic impasse, capitalism, Latour, Marx, politics, real abstraction, Shaviro
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Institutional Obsolescence
Nice talk from Clay Shirky on institutions as normative sutures – organizational systems that coordinate based on a plan, or a set of goals in which the first goal is the persistence of the system itself – and the challenge … Continue reading
Whose Market?
Which of these does not belong? One of the great distortions operative in popular discourse is the notion that capitalism is a market economy. It is not. A market operates on the basis of massive competition amongst merchants, and a … Continue reading
Posted in experimental strategies, political economics, politics
Tagged capitalism, class struggle, economy, non-capital, open market, politics
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Sociopathic Socialism?
Is this an endorsement? President as terrorist, sociopath, villain? Socialism as sociopathology? Of course, the Joker would not be going to such remarkably dangerous (from a campaigning standpoint) lengths to rescue a floundering economy. He would joyfully revel in its … Continue reading
Posted in current affairs, political economics, politics, the real world
Tagged capitalism, economy, joker, nihilism, Obama
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