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Tag Archives: Marx
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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Warwick Transcendental Realism Workshop, Laruelle Presentations
You may have already seen it elsewhere, but I’m glad to announce that I’ll be presenting at the Warwick Transcendental Realism Workshop alongside Pete Wolfendale (Deontologistics), Nick Srnicek (The Accursed Share), Tom O’Shea (Grundlegung), James Trafford, and Ray Brassier. I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in non-phi, speculative realism, the real world
Tagged Brassier, Laruelle, Marx, transcendental realism
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Notes on the Ideal University
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
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
Posted in historical materialism
Tagged capitalism, communism, historicity, manifest futurity, Marx
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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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Revolution LOL *UPDATED AGAIN*
*UPDATE* I want to clarify that I in no way intended any offense to Graham, or anyone else for that matter. I find the sort of remarks to which this post responds (and Graham is certainly not alone in making … Continue reading
Posted in eventalism, experimental strategies, politics, the real world
Tagged Harman, Mark Fisher, Marx, politics, revolution
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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
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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