Comments on: Fragment on Textual Strategy in Capital http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/ Theory In The Rough Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roughtheory.org » Scratchpad: How Must the Science Begin? (Not This Way, Surely…) http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1099 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:51:19 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1099 [...] the fold this goes – a sort of framing mini-chapter, intended to do roughly the same work that the “Fragment on the Textual Strategy of Capital“ post did for the blog series on Capital, now that I’m finally ready (as I had mentioned [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: What Is the “Social Character of Labour” in Capitalism? http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1098 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:13:07 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1098 [...] thinking out loud a bit about what Marx means by the following comment, from the section on commodity fetishism:

This Fetishism of commodities has its origin, as the foregoing analysis has already shown, in the peculiar social character of the labour that produces them.

So what is the peculiar social character of this labour? [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Modernities Conference Talk http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1097 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:44:29 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1097 [...] I’ve posted the conference talk to the Modernities: Radicalism, Reflexivity, Realities conference below the fold [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Random Metatheory http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1096 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:59:25 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1096 [...] What I want to do in this post, is not so much answer Nate’s questions directly, as use the thought-space that those questions have opened as an excuse, first, to explore some of the implications of this reading of Capitalfor how we can conceptualise critical judgements about competing forms of theory and practice generated immanently within capitalism. And second, to talk a bit about how this kind of theory involves a form of relativising, locating, or situating dispositions (intuitive forms of perception and thought) by demonstrating at least one dimension of collective practice in which such dispositions are enacted, without, however, reducing dispositions to the theorised form of enactment (i.e., without claiming that the theorised form of enactment is the only space in which such dispositions are enacted), and without automatically undermining the validity of such dispositions (i.e., without acting as though situating a disposition by itself suffices to debunk the insights or potentials that disposition expresses). [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Cartesian Fragment http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1095 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:12:42 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1095 [...] Marx is therefore already, in these earliest passages, describing, not simply a relation of humans to an external world, but a relation of humans to themselves – a mode of embodiment and self-experience, that incorporates a felt distinction between material bodies, cultural or social shaping of those material bodies, and a disembodied, contemplative “ghost in the machine” that experiences itself as having “discovered” an intrinsic division between matter and society. [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Not Knowing Where to Have It http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1094 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:46:09 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1094 [...] complex critical strategy that motivates this presentation (discussed in more detail in previous posts) enables Marx to avoid unfolding his critique in the name of some kind of objective [...]

]]> By: Natural’s Not In It « Grundlegung http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1093 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:40:12 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1093 [...] Fragment on Textual Strategy in Capital [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Subjects, Objects and Things in Between http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1092 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:06:34 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1092 [...] Nevertheless, this small hint begins to react back on the modes of presentation with which this text begins, and the strategic intention of the earlier sections becomes a bit clearer. At this point, it begins to become clear that the opening definitions, which appear to concern certain economic concepts about material wealth, are always and already quite sweeping categories capturing forms of subjectivity – encompassing modes of the experience of self, forms of embodiment, possible means of practising selves in their self-relation, relation to others, and relation to a nonhuman environment. [...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Value and Its Form - from Deduction to Dialectic http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1091 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:31:56 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1091 [...] I read this section, among other things, as Marx’s somewhat playful virtuoso demonstration of the ease with which he can surpass Hegel by embedding certain core concepts of “dialectics” by revealing the ways in which certain dimensions of collective practice possess practically dialectical properties.[...]

]]> By: Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: An Aside on the Category of Capital http://roughtheory.org/2007/09/12/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1090 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:09 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/fragment-on-textual-strategy-in-capital/#comment-1090 [...] just in case it has escaped attention, the first chapter of Capital – although I obviously think it deserves great attention – does not actually deploy the category of capital (which, in the scheme of things, one would imagine would be a fairly important category to analyse…). Instead, the phenomenological perspective it analyses remains within commodity production and exchange, which means, among other things, that the concept of the fetish as discussed here is therefore primarily directed at the “Cartesian” forms of perception that are expressed in this dimension of collective experience. [...]

]]>