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). 
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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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