Relations and reactions
In a post on Marx’s dialectical method and Deleuze, Steven Shaviro makes the interesting claim that it is Deleuze’s pluralism that is transcendental. It is the theory of relations that Deleuze has...
View ArticleReading Capital (notes #0–preliminaries)
1. Some preliminary notes on the fact of the reading group and its method. A reading group recently began in London with the aim of reading through Marx’s Capital (Vol.1), Monday nights 7pm at the Red...
View ArticleReading Capital (notes #1-Beginning with the commodity)
The opening line of Capital begins like an axiomatic that will subsequently orientate the work, stating the relationship between wealth in capitalist societies and the role of the commodity. Wealth...
View ArticleConcrete communism – the problem of the cell and the new organism
There is an interesting article on the The Commune website about theorising and imagining a post-capitalist society – take a peek over here. I agree with the emphasis the author has on the problem of...
View ArticleThe individual is not anyone
The discussion on Marx, Deleuze and desire continues…my own thoughts seep out of side… In Video Veritas responds to Larvalsubjects question ‘Where’s Marx?’ with the claim that he is a ghostlike...
View ArticleNetworked flesh
The question that is pressing in arises from the political problem, the problem of politics in itself, as politics. Put bluntly, why is there such a thing as ‘politics’?
View ArticleThe image is already fading
The image is already fading. This is perhaps the only thing we might want to accelerate within capitalism, although capitalism is not the source of the image, or the fading. Both image and fading...
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