Area 1: Non-linear Historical Materialism
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PhD Exam Reading List
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 »
“Postmodern” Politics: Working Through the Neuroses of the Old Left
Posted in Ideas, tagged foucault, identity politics, liberalism, neo-conservatives., pleb, ranciere on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A lot of the paleo-leftist criticisms of post-structuralism is that it pulls the rug out from tried and true models of politics. Some people blame it on New Left undermining of the strong base of Old Left labor politics. One of the contemporary standard-bearers is Todd Gitlin, a former student leader in the Students for [...]
The Fragmented Body of Prometheus
Posted in Reading Notes, tagged dialectics, marx, ranciere on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“In the face of those who denigrate decadence, the supposed optimism of the theory of productive forces is immediately ripped to piece by the play of two contrary powers: the grand tragedy of water and fire, of production and destruction, and the low comedy of earth and air, of fabrication and imitation. One may talk as [...]
