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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Speculation

2 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 24, 2008

I’ve just finished reading Specters of Marx, and am fighting to get a particularly stupid grin off my face. I had read this work a long time ago, in another life entirely, and what struck me then – and therefore remained in memory – bears little relation to what strikes me now. I have been [...]

Conversations, Fetish, Marxes, Materialism, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

Fragmentary Thoughts on Anger

5 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 21, 2008

I’ve been pausing for the past few days over the thought of writing something on Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech. I’m not skilled at writing on such things, and there has certainly been no lack of commentary on this speech from other fronts. In any event, as always seems to be the case with [...]

Current Events, Politics, Transformation

Science of Logic Reading Group: Essential Hegel

Leave a Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 17, 2008

Just a very quick note to folks following both the in-person and the online versions of the Science of Logic reading group. First, so that I won’t perpetually ping the good folks who have contributed to the online group, every time I do an organisational post like this one, I’ve finally created a page where [...]

Logic, Reading Group

Metonymy

12 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 15, 2008

The sorts of conversations that have been possible on this blog, and on the other places I’ve stumbled across since starting this site, have been more important to me than I can easily express. Online interactions can be difficult to navigate – misinterpretations are easier, conflicts can escalate more quickly, discussions can spiral in more [...]

Blogging, Professional Life

The Matter with Form

1 Comment Posted by N Pepperell on March 12, 2008

Apologies for the recent silence on the blog – I’ve been preoccupied with offline things, and blogging will unfortunately remain slow for a bit. I did want to point to a very nice recent post over at Larval Subjects, on “Social Multiplicities and Agency”. This post continues Sinthome’s recent reflections on the problem of how [...]

Abstraction, Contradiction, Conversations, Critical Theory, Political Economy, Transformation

Anticipating Hegel

2 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 8, 2008

I’m coming down with a cold – and working on Lukács – and one or the other of these things is making it very difficult for me to write anything intelligible to anyone else. I did want to mention, for anyone who hasn’t clicked through in a while, that Tom Bunyard from Monagyric and I [...]

Conversations, Logic

The Production of Labour

5 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 6, 2008

I keep meaning to put up a pointer to Praxis, which is always discussing interesting topics at the intersection of economics and deconstruction. The posts over there are consistently worth the read, but I wanted to post a specific pointer today to a nice post up on Keynes, written partially in dialogue to some of [...]

Conversations, Political Economy

Free Floating Discourse

7 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 3, 2008

Off the wall question: I keep encountering a particular formulation in the work of quite good students who are trying to outline their methodology for research projects. It’s not unusual for someone to say something like: “My method is discourse analysis”. Now, I react to this statement, sort of the way I would react to [...]

Methodology, Teaching

Science of Logic Reading Group: Countdown

10 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 2, 2008

It’s been ages since I’ve written a proper update post for the Science of Logic reading group, which continues to meet in person, albeit with a hiatus around the recent conference. This week and next we are tackling the mammoth section on Quantum and the not-quite-so-mammoth section on Quantitative Relation. The online discussion has been [...]

Logic, Reading Group

Great(er) Scott!

6 Comments Posted by N Pepperell on March 1, 2008

So it’s finally happened. Prompted by an email asking him to identify his secret blog, Scott Eric Kaufman has just outed himself as the hitherto faux-donymous author of what in the hell…: My real name is Scott Eric Kaufman. I have a public blog that you may have read. You may ask yourself, why is [...]

Blogging, Procrastination