Alphonse on conspiracy-theorising. Seems that what Taylorism accomplishes for capitalists - namely, the dis-cognition of workers on the assembly line - Cliffites phantasmatically accomplish for the same mass worker (always white and male, strangely enough) viz the otherly-complexioned hordes. *
An excerpt as I draft, on autonomy, recognition and movement.
[…] In 1964, Mario Tronti began putting forward an analysis of working class autonomy that would come to be identified—and not always accurately—with an entire period and milieux of radical politics in Italy.
More on New Orleans definitely worth reading (via Kelley, whose comment is worth a read too).
And, speaking of Mark Latham (well, I was studiously avoiding speaking about the campaign to sell his memoirs), a sideline. (Oh, ok, just one (esoteric) link about Latham.)
I’ve been reading a couple of books on Hegel, which seem to me at first bite, to constitute a perverse, if fascinating, labour. Werner Hamacher’s Pleroma - Reading Hegel and Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Restlessness of the Negative. Both, in somewhat different ways, attempt to read Hegel against Hegelianism, against the dialectical system.
So, it seems that Melbourne is about to become a militarised zone - which is to say, more than it has been for some parts of the city and people already.