Tag Archives: communism

Normativity, Ideology, and Historicity in the Work of Karl Marx

Posted on June 25, 2010 by reidkane

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 | 11 Comments

Counter-Institutional Politics

Posted on April 13, 2010 by reidkane

The goal of an egalitarian politics is, in every instance, to foster, support, and sustain a maximal degree of collective self-determination. This is a piecemeal, painstaking task. It by definition cannot be accomplished all at once, as this self-determination must … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, politics, schizoanalysis | Tagged analytic subversion unit, capitalism, collectivity, communism, counter-institutions, egalitarian politics, sovereignty, syndicalism, unionism | 10 Comments

Notes on the Ideal University

Posted on April 12, 2010 by reidkane

Why would you want to live anywhere other than a university? Why should a community be anything other than a school, whose overriding collective purpose is to contribute as far as possible in every activity to the continuing enrichment of … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, politics, utopian science | Tagged capitalism, collective existential problem, communism, egalitarianism, Marx, Spinoza, university, utopiation | 56 Comments

Material Conditions of Philosophical Practice

Posted on April 1, 2010 by reidkane

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 | 28 Comments

Principles for Historical Materialism

Posted on March 13, 2010 by reidkane

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 →

Posted in historical materialism | Tagged capitalism, communism, historicity, manifest futurity, Marx | 2 Comments

“Neurology Death Cult”

Posted on December 4, 2009 by reidkane

“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 →

Posted in experimental strategies, neuroscience, political economics, politics, speculative realism | Tagged Brassier, capitalism, communism, Marx, misuse, nihilism, normative insecurity, proletariat | 35 Comments

Nudity in Song

Posted on November 28, 2009 by reidkane

The way one feels could be likened to an opening or a slamming or a breathing hard all of them, all of them have seen inside my mouth have grown and flown south one day I’ll be my own Leadbelly … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, hauntology, para-ontology, utopian science | Tagged abandon, Badiou, being-no-one, communism, exposure, music, Nietzsche, nihilism, nudity | 10 Comments

Impatient Messianism

Posted on August 25, 2009 by reidkane

Messianic politics is often derided for its passivity, resignation, and ineffectuality. Yet these are not inherent vices, which I’ll attempt to demonstrate here by defending a very different sense of messianism. God’s Waiting Room Messianism is a matter of redemption. … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, futurology, hauntology, historical materialism, non-phi, para-ontology, political theology, politics, utopian science | Tagged abandon, Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, Brassier, class struggle, communism, decay, Derrida, example, experimentality, exposure, Marx, messianism, nihilism, onto-anthropology, Paul, politics, prefigurative praxis, redemption, ruin, threshold, utopiation, Zizek | 10 Comments

Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels

Posted on August 7, 2009 by reidkane

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 | 6 Comments

Artificial Realism

Posted on July 23, 2009 by reidkane

Ben Noys on the agency problem in Marxism. To briefly recapitulate, there is a debate as to the relation between labor and the standpoint of critique: is labor-power a force external to capital rooted in ‘human nature’ and on the … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, planomenology | Tagged abandon, artificiality, Brassier, Bryant, capitalism, Churchland, class struggle, communism, decay, Dennett, eliminativism, ex-appropriation, Marx, Negarestani, Noys, Pepperell, proletariat, ruin, salvagepunk, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 9 Comments