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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Fragment on Textual Strategy in Capital

12 Comments Posted by on September 12, 2007

Marx is, as a rule, sparse in his explicit methodological reflections. Major sections of Capital often begin in the voice of a position Marx will subsequently invert, such that what initially appear to be abstract definitions integral to Marx’s own stance, are revealed in later sections to be forms of thought Marx is trying to [...]

Critical Theory, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

What Is Radical?

15 Comments Posted by on September 8, 2007

Hopefully Alexei won’t mind if I lift his latest comment into a more prominent space. The original context for the comment I’m reproducing below is in the still-percolating discussion of self-reflexivity: this comment was posted here, and was written as a direct response to this comment from Joe. I don’t want to deflect the original [...]

Critique, Transformation

Carded (Updated)

4 Comments Posted by on September 7, 2007

Since I clearly have nothing substantive to read and write about… I seem to remember L Magee having an idea like this some months back – theorycards: The Theory.org.uk Trading Cards are a pack of 32 online cards featuring theorists and concepts close to the hearts of people interested in social and cultural theory, gender [...]

Links, Procrastination, Reading Group

Tracking Conversations?

4 Comments Posted by on September 4, 2007

I just wanted to draw attention to Adam’s technical question, posted in a comment below: Great discussions like this one make me think there is a gap in our technology. What I want is a metasite that only tracks conversations. It would represent the posts (including comments) relevant for any conversation sorted by time posted [...]

Blogging, Conversations, Procrastination

As It Is

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 3, 2007

I’ve spent the weekend trying to piece together abstracts and get my head around things I will present for various upcoming events – an activity that has torn my thoughts into all sorts of directions other than where I wanted to be thinking right now. Too scattered for focussed posting, and heading into my teaching [...]

Critique, Self-Reflexivity, Transformation

Getting from A to Z

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 1, 2007

So I had an extended meeting the other day

Supervision

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