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- “…distant noises from the right bank.”
Allow me a long quotation from Negri’s engagement with Derrida’s Specters of Marx. Here Negri argues that while in Derrida there is a critique of capitalism (“specter of capitalism”) the “specter of communism” is indetectable.
- Slavoj Zizek against Bernard-Henri Levy
There are a number of important moments, in particular look for the charity as a consumption practice or the violence of charity, the problem of zionist anti-semitism, the persistence of systemic violence in West Bank, the neccessity of communism in the advent of “new” commons, palin a as fascist, Hitler as a new age philosopher [...]
- “United States of Alzheimer’s”
On May 16, Studs Terkel turned 95. He is precious. You may want to listen to his interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!. The first time I taught Introduction of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts, thanks to Steve Cohn’s sound advice, I used interviews from his Working:What People do all Day and [...]
- Health Care and the Community Economy: Towards an Ethics of Surplus and Geography of Sufficiency. (Part 1)
Introduction In a recent presentation entitled “Freud in the Field: Some Early Twentieth Century Encounters in Participant Observation,” critical geographer Laura Cameron argued that Bronisław Kasper Malinowski’s participant observation was inspired by Freudian psychoanalysis—the productive tension it creates between engagement and reflection. Though Malinowski later repudiated psychoanalysis as a result of a controversy over the [...]
- A leader without a body?
The following is a quote from Ernesto Laclau’s The Populist Reason (Verso, 2005: 60-1), but, as he explains, he himself is quoting in extenso from Sigmund Freud. I think it is important to read this passage in relation to “A commune with a leader?” and “No commune without a leader?” postings. [It is even possible [...]
- A commune with a leader?
The following lenghty quote is an epic footnote (No. 112, pp. 373-375) from Jack Amariglio’s dissertation Economic History and the Theory of Primitive of Socio-Economic Development (University of Massachusetts, 1984) and it pertains to the theoretical status of the so-called Asiatic Mode of Production (AMoP). For Amariglio, the AMoP is not a distinct mode of [...]
- No commune without a leader?
This is transcribed from a documentary included among the supplementary matter for the BDR Trilogy (comprising of The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola) DVD Box Set produced by those good people at the Criterion. The title of the documentary is I don’t just want you to love me and it is directed [...]
