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The theatre of economic categories: Rediscovering Capital in the late 1960s

...of the concept of role revolting’, see Theodor Adorno and Helmut Becker, ‘Education for Maturity and Responsibility’, trans. Robert French et al., History of the Human Sciences 12:3 (1999), 27. References to the concept of ‘character mask’ can be found in most of Adorno’s published lectures from the 1960s. ^ Adorno, ‘Society’, trans. Fredric Jameson, in Can One Live After Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader, ed. Rolf Tiedemann (Stanford: Stanford U...

Agonized liberalism: The liberal theory of William E. Connolly

...the self for the haves, so the upper mobility within corporations, or the education of targeted constituencies, does not evoke too much of a visceral reaction in the establishment, or resentment among whites. In the meantime, the have-nots not only abide by the terms of restrained participation, but as long as they emplot their claims in the narrative of contestability it is less difficult for the haves to admit them. Historically, liberalism has...

Wrapping the Reichstag: Re-visioning German history

...ilding. Machine guns were positioned on the corner towers. In this hour of crisis Friedrich Ebert, the leader of the majority Social Democrats, acted with exemplary statesmanship. Unswervingly he stuck to his advocacy of free elections to a constitutive assembly. The extreme Left fell back on its last resort – armed insurrection. As the election campaign got underway bloody street battles broke out, clashes so fierce that it took troops to quell t...

The problem is proletarianisation, not capitalism: A critique of Bernard Stiegler’s contributive economy

...state of capitalism today, which revealed itself with the 2007-8 financial crisis, and to the restraints that today’s politico-economic status quo impose on our lives. Although Gorz, Moulier-Boutang and Stiegler justify the urgency of a form of guaranteed basic income because of automation’s immanent threat, Stiegler’s main concern is the degrading conditions of possibility for the unfolding of people’s lives. Basic income is politically conflicte...
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Reports from London, Cardiff, Swansea, Radical Historians, etc.

...ot Waddell Gary Wersky Sue Wolff Bob Young Jim Young The Marxian Theory of Crisis, Capital and the State – David Yaffe Post-Keynesian Economic Theory and the Theory of Capitalist Crisis – Jan Kregel Capitalism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century – Michael Barratt Brown Capitalist Crisis and Organis Composition Andrew Glyn Marx on the Rate of Profit – Ian Steedman *************************** Cheques/money orders payable to “Conference of So...

Discussion: Leninism versus proletarian self-emancipation; Laing’s social philosophy; The Trivialily of Althusser

...nd social revolution’ to overthrow capitalism. To quote Geras again, ‘this education of the proletariat is part and parcel of the socialist revolution which would be unthinkable without it’. Unthinkable for Marx, but evidently not for Lenin. The theory advanced in these last articles of Lenin’s is that the ‘vanguard’ party is entitled to seize power when it can, establish its dictatorship in the name (and name only, in practice) of the working cla...

Communist University, Teaching Philosophy, Socialist Economists, RPG Open Meeting, Oxford, London

...technic arranged a two day conference on ‘The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education’. This was a conference designed for teachers of philosophy and aside fram invited speakers chiefly attended by non-university teachers. It is likely that most university teachers would feel that such a conference could have nothing to say that would concern them. From the programme, i t was just about possible to suppose that this was to be a chance for teachers...

Dissident Intellectuals: East and West, RPG Reports, etc.

...resolution in practice. Philosophy is changing in the new circumstances of education in this country; and in periods of crisis we may hope for exciting solutions. Membership of the A.T.P. is £1.50 a year. The secretary is Peter Caldwell at Bolton Institute of Technology. Noel Parker Counter-Course Conference canterbury, March 22-24 Publicity ballsups restricted attendance at the Conference, though about 50 people came from all over Britain. Extrem...

Claire Fontaine: Giving shape to painful things

...ies’ as everywhere else is. Art is indeed a crucial vehicle for diagnosing crisis – not only the economic one but all sort of crises. The very history of art and crisis are deeply related, and one could say that even the criteria to judge an artwork are in a state of crisis. The readymade artist is obviously a positive phenomenon, a breach in the mythology of the exceptional aesthetic hero and a step towards more accessible models of behaviour and...

Ideas are bulletproof

...l parties currently opposed to Sebastián Piñera’s government, agree on the crisis of secondary and higher education in a country that has been widely praised for fostering democratization and economic prosperity after the dark decades of Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–89). On the other hand, there seems to be little agreement on what this crisis actually means, and even the government recognizes the necessity for substantial changes in the relation...

The impossibility of precarity

...beralism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. 9. ^ David Harvey, ‘Their Crisis, Our Chal enge’, Red Pepper, 2009, www.redpepper.org.uk/ [archive]Their‑crisis‑our‑chal enge. 10. ^ Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Dover Publications, New York, 2011, p. 470. 11. Ibid., p. 475. 12. Ibid., pp. 430–57. 13. ^ John Lear and Joseph Col ins, ‘Working in Chile’s Free Market’, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 22, no. 1, 1995, pp. 10–29. 14. ^ Vassilis Tsiano...

Dissonances of the Arab Left

...and gender theories, the art of networks and internet culture a bilingual education (english and french) developed by an international faculty of visiting artists, researchers and theoreticians a program open to applicants with previous education in science, humanities, political studies, economics, polytechnics, law, arts as well as other fields of research application deadline : 28 march 2014 CCC research-based master programme doctoral/phd sch...

Kate Soper: An alternative hedonism

...er education, and you were very much encouraged by your parents to succeed educationally. Clearly, there was a significance attached to being a woman in higher education, and becoming involved in radical politics, which were male-dominated, in the early 1960s. Then there was your marriage, its breakdown, and your return to a more satisfactory experience of philosophical work in the early 1970s at Sussex. In view of the gender dimensions of those ex...

Afghanistan and the Left

...he economy, for imposing national discipline in the name of an exceptional crisis on worker and intellectual and for silencing dissident nationalist sent iment under the threat of war. If these truncated remarks reveal anything, it is simply the complex tangle which underlies what RP has taken to be a straight forward case of occupation and independence. Even,if we can accept this capricious formula, the real alternative to occupation by S2 Soviet...

Old and New Left

...to that’. The most glaring feature of the position today that it is not a crisis of British capitalism; it is a world crisis of an unprecedented nature, in which for the first time Britain can only play an incidental part. Anything we may be able to do has to be conditioned by that, and we have to begin by understanding that. If we do not we are likely to be surprized by events at every turn. How can we (presumably socialist intellectuals) be act...

Hunger in Niger and Zimbabwe; Marx Comes First Again, and Loses

...the Sahara. However, eleven of those stories were about the recent hunger crisis and were run in the space of about seven weeks from the 18 July. The twelfth focused on another African cliché, slavery, and was broadcast in early February, three months after the WFP had first warned of a hunger crisis brewing in Niger. During the past four or five years, the British mediaʼs limited appetite for Africa has transformed into a bulimic desire for rollin...

Thought of the outside: Foucault contra Agamben

...nd the many, multifarious security measures are deployed to ensure health, education, employment, leisure, happiness. These two modes of biopower are articulated through sex (as it constitutes both a behaviour to monitor and the sine qua non condition of the population’s existence) and through norms, as the means to foster and adjudicate behaviour according to the politics of truth. If discipline produces docile, self-invigilating bodies, governme...

Ethical Dimensions of Human Attitudes to Nature

...the mutual relations of different public interests: economic, ecological, educational, recreational and even ‘humanizing’ ones. An especially difficult question is to find a reasonable balance between economic and ecological demands and the level of living standards. Public discussion, properly informed, and led or supported by environmental ethics, will be crucial to the formation of appropriate norms. But public discussion has yet another impor...

Analytical Marxism – an ex-paradigm?: The odyssey of G.A. Cohen

...sion, then, is to bring about a ʻbenign realignment of labour, leisure and educationʼ. [39] Some conception of human nature and the conditions of its flourishing obviously premiss these arguments. The problem is that he has tried to argue that the development of human industry to a level at which the transition to a feasible socialism is, at long last, on the historical agenda will be fortuitously coincident with a more or less spontaneous disillus...

Noam Chomsky: Freedom and power

...people’s attitudes on current political and economic issues, the financial crisis, that sort of thing. And it turns out, as in the past, no matter how right-wing you get – say, the Tea Party – most people have more or less social-democratic attitudes. So the Tea Party segment of the population support more spending on health, education, and so on. On the other hand, if you ask other questions, take say proposals for a balanced budget amendment to...

Heidegger’s Early Development

...c and provincial: his father was sexton of the local church. His gymnasium education was of ‘the c’onventional humanistic kind: large doses of the classics, history and Germany literature – almost total neglect of natural science. Heidegger was a wizard at Greek and Latin, retaining throughout his life the ability to quote large chunks at the drop of a hat. When he left school in 1909 he went to the seminary at Freiburg university and began traini...