°capitalism, religion, history

December 20, 2006

A redux of Hamacher’s “Guilt History - Benjamin’s Sketch “Capitalism as Religion” (and the graphic I used last time), apropos recent debates. (I won’t blockquote it though, because it’s long and easier to read without doing so.) Trans. Kirk Wetters, Diacritics 32:3-4 (2002).

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°Right to have rights

September 9, 2006

Again, though I’ve already posted an extract of this before, here’s the entirety of Werner Hamacher’s “The Right to Have Rights (Four-and-a-Half Remarks),” from SAQ, 103:2-3, 2004:

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°Working

July 27, 2006

I’ve excerpted a bit of this before, but here’s all of Werner Hamacher’s “Working Through Working”, Modernism/Modernity, 3:1, 1996, pp23-56 - well, minus the footnotes:

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°Capitalism as cult

October 5, 2005

A blockquote post, an excerpt from Werner Hamacher’s “Guilt History Benjamin’s Sketch ‘Capitalism as Religion’” - Diacritics 32.3-4 (2002) - while I recover from glandular and finish some writing.

[…] That which is “already recognizable in the present in the religious structure of capitalism” is shown by Benjamin in three features—and a fourth that lies in the unrecognizability of its God.

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°Hegel

September 22, 2005

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.

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°Commodity politics

August 19, 2005

Consider the ‘promise of democracy’. In “Lingua Amissa” (1995), Hamacher writes:

commodity politics is subordinate to the strict dictate of equality among abstract concepts. Commodity-exchange-language is accordingly restricted to a grammatical-syntactic minimum in which only propositions of equality can be formed.

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°Universal Rights + the Police State

August 7, 2005

Werner Hamacher, “The Right to Have Rights (Four-and-a-Half Remarks)”. South Atlantic Quarterly 103.2/3 (2004).

Marx takes as his starting point that the fundamental postulate of Christianity is the sovereignty of man,

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