°operaismo/difference

March 19, 2007

The latest edition of SubStance (36:1) significantly extends the essays from (post-)Operaismo translated into English. Extracts and/or comments in due time, and ask, preferably for specific ones, if you can’t access.

–Christian Marazzi’s “Rules for the Incommensurable”
– Virno’s “On the Parasitic Character of Wage Labor”
– Negri’s “Art and Culture in the Age of Empire and the Time of the Multitudes”
– Franco Berardi’s, “Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination” and “Schizo-Economy”
– Lazarrato’s “Strategies of the Political Entrepreneur” and “The Revolutions of Capitalism”
– Antonella Corsani’s, “Beyond the Myth of Woman: The Becoming-Transfeminist of (Post-)Marxism”

Also, in the latest edition of Postmodern Culture, a video (and audio) of a conversation between Spivak and Butler, “A Dialogue on Global States, 6 May 2006″.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Reading + Multitudes + Virno + Spivak
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°Differance

April 19, 2006

xposted to Long Sunday, and as part of the discussion on “Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value” taking place there.

1. "Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value" is, perhaps, for those who arrive at it from literature, cultural studies, philosophy or similar, Spivak’s most ‘difficult’ or elusive of essays. It seems to be the one that, more than any other, makes readers blink, their eyes glaze over.

Filed under: Movement + Marx + Derrida + Spivak
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°Scattered speculations

April 18, 2006

A reminder that the week-long symposium on Spivak’s “Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value” kicks off soon (ie., Monday, American time). The preliminaries are here, and the various and growing list of contributions will also be aggregated there, after a fashion.

And, bloggers are getting younger by the moment: Shannon, Matt, and Az (whose yoghurt fetish has never waned).

Filed under: Reading + Spivak
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°Differentia specifica

April 9, 2006

development proceeds at all times on the side of the predicate. […] an explanation which does not give the differentia specifica is no explanation - Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.

Consider this post as a follow-up to the brief discussion below and a previous posting elsewhere, as it might elaborate on the difference between this labour and labour as such. As well as an extended footnote to a post on Spivak’s “Speculations on the Question of Value” yet to be written, since here the question of continuity-discontinuity (and of difference) is, well, decisive. I’m trying to be less subtle.

Filed under: Labour + Marx + Spivak
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°Spivak

April 3, 2006

Another blogweave, this time on Gayatri Spivak’s “Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value”, which Craig (once again), has generously shared - you’ll find the pdf here. It’s scheduled for between April 17 and the 23rd.

Related readings online: “Subaltern Studies” [pdf], “Ghostwriting” [pdf], and “The trajectory of the subaltern in my work”.

Filed under: Labour + Reading + Spivak
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