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In my own contribution, I argue that Marx’s analysis of the commodity confronts a representational problem. How can value, which abstracts from the concrete world of use-values, be expressed in physical form? The answer is figuration. docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/view…
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LOOK AT THIS
@sean_obee and I have edited a special issue of @web_clc called “Keywords for Value and Culture”. Across 34 essays, it explores the shared conceptual terrain between value-form theory and aesthetic theory. The full issue is available open access here: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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New piece co-authored with the excellent @triofrancos!
For @phenomenalworld, we analyse the core features of Trumpian state capitalism, its fundamental limits, and faultlines, as manifest in the US’s quest to secure critical minerals
@CdsCambridge @Dept_of_POLIS
Link below 👇🏾
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The Raft of the Medusa, by Théodore Géricault (French), 1819, 📸 by Joe Murphy
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where you at @ArtButSports. come outside
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Sketch of a monument designed by Albrecht Dürer shortly after the repression of the Peasant War of 1524-1526. Atop the structure, melancholic peasant broods, a sword stabbed in his back.
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My belated attempt to intervene in the Capital translation discourse while also thinking about how it connects to the history of the Marx revival
Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.” @chrisokane_nyc
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A reminder for those who constantly (and conveniently) seem to forget
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I’m going to spend my Sunday reading through this again because it is one of the few works of theory that effectively thematizes organizational dynamics that I’ve unhappily found myself living through more than once—healing comes through thematisation.
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my awesome editor @BryanAGraham watched game 1 with inmates on rikers island:
(i love my newspaper)
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It was probably more the founder of vice starting a right wing paramilitary boys club I think tbh
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My hipster take: the true end of the 2010s was Eric Wareheim in 2021 directing a holiday special for Amazon starring LCD Soundsystem in, yes, an absurdist 90s sitcom pastiche, released a little under 2 weeks after the Amazon warehouse collapse that killed six
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my new review of @alybatt Free Gifts is out now in International Critical Thought: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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“At irregular intervals, voices from the left and right of center raise the question of American decline. What can we learn from this march of failed predictions? Will the doomsayers always be wrong? Or just early?”
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