Area 1: Non-linear Historical Materialism
Posts Tagged ‘althusser’
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Posted in Ideas, tagged Agamben, althusser, anarchism, capitalism, communism, communization, D&G, deleuze, emergence, empire, foucault, guattari, lived communism, marx, marxism, materialism, micro-politics, Nancy, negri, neo-liberalism, nietzsche, politics, psychoanalysis, ranciere, schizoanalysis, singularity, sovereignty, spinoza, spivak, state, subjectivity, Tiqqun, war machine on December 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »
“Forget the Dialectic”
Posted in Ideas, tagged althusser, bergson, D&G, deleuze, dialectics, hegel, hylomorphism, marxism, mediation, nietzsche, riemann, simondon, spinoza, time, totality on June 15, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Heres a _rough_ version of the paper I gave at the Marxist Literary Group – Institute on Culture and Society 2010 in Antigonish at St. Francis Xavier University: Forget The Dialectic Too many Movement philosophers, not enough moving philosophy. The curse of Movements without movement. Politicos make a motion, fake e-motion. We need more Loco-motion. [...]
The Becoming-Necessary of the Capitalist Mode of Production
Posted in Ideas, tagged althusser, capitalism, D&G, materialism on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It all started with a bang. “It was necessary to create the conditions for a swerve.” But some bangs are bigger than others. If we eat our desert first and forgo the tough-going beginning of Capital, we’ll find the becoming-necessary of capital in chapters 26+. “Written in the annals of mankind of blood and fire” [...]
foucault and over-determination
Posted in Ideas, tagged althusser, foucault, psychoanalysis on February 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
foucault, student of althusser, is known by many independently of his teacher’s influence. traces of althusser’s method can be found in foucault’s work – even the most ‘radical’ moves that one might not initially attribute to an althusserian influence. one of the most (non)obvious examples is foucault’s almost obsessive research on the production of truth [...]
