Elliptical Critique
Light posting for the moment, as it’s the beginning of our term here, and so things are quite hectic, but I wanted to pick up on one small point that had occurred to me in the course of responding to...
View ArticleCFP: Roundtable on Capital
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, but have had limited time online – most will already have seen it elsewhere, but for what it’s worth… The Society for Social and Political Philosophy is...
View ArticleDebasing the Superstructure
Okay. Let’s see how far I manage to get into this concept before other obligations draw me away… I tend to dislike attempts to understand Marx’s analysis of capitalism in terms of categories like...
View ArticleIs Slavery Capitalist?
Just a brief placeholder note here, since I don’t have the time to develop this textually (and it would take a very long run-up, since it relates to the architectonic of Capital as a whole), but I was...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Capital
After a weeklong term break that has given me enough thinking space to generate content for a few new posts, I’m about to be swallowed by work again for several weeks… Although the second half of the...
View ArticleThe Education of the Future
We tend to think of Marx’s work on immanent potentials for transformation as referring to dramatic, large-scale sociological processes. Certainly his work analyses such processes. And certainly he...
View ArticleMarx Roundtable: Update
Just updating an earlier post about the Roundtable on Marx’s Capital, to be held by the Society for Social and Political Philosophy at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, from 24-27...
View ArticleStakes
I’m mired in the selection process at the moment, but couldn’t resist replying (too) quickly to john’s comment under the Is Slavery Capitalist? post below, which was itself a response to a discussion...
View ArticleIndirection
In an indirect and incomplete way, some of the questions currently hanging in the comments here, I’ve addressed – sleepily – in a comment over at Nate’s… Rather than spreading the discussion across two...
View ArticleCapital Against Capitalism
So back in Melbourne after attending the Capital Against Capitalism conference in Sydney over the weekend. The event reminded me that I keep meaning to put up the actual submitted version of my...
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