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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Thesis Workshop: Turning the Tables

3 Comments Posted by on January 31, 2009

Okay. Another chapter whose contents will be somewhat familiar to regular readers. This chapter suffers from containing some of the oldest layers of the thesis – points that I have now written in a number of different forms, not only for the thesis itself, but for various conference presentations and journal articles. The result is [...]

Abstraction, Capital v.1, Critical Theory, Drafts, Empiricism, Fetish, Materialism, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Thesis, Transformation

Thesis Workshop: When Is It Safe to Go on Reading Capital?

7 Comments Posted by on January 30, 2009

I haven’t finished the chapter that will become the proper introduction to the thesis – in part because I have a cold (been fighting it off for weeks – my body obviously figured that, since I have finished my major writing, now must be a good time… ;-P). Below the fold, though, is the first [...]

Abstraction, Capital v.1, Critical Theory, Drafts, Empiricism, Fetish, Logic, Materialism, Metatheory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Thesis, Transformation

Worker Bees

1 Comment Posted by on January 29, 2009

I have to admit, I’ve never particularly thought about the industrial organisation of crop pollination, until I read this column from the New York Times discussing possible responses to Colony Collapse Disorder – the mysterious plague that causes adult bees to desert their hives, leaving honey and larvae behind. I found this image particularly striking: [...]

Current Events, Ecology, Miscellaneous, Overheard, Political Economy

If You Try Sometimes…

9 Comments Posted by on January 28, 2009

Somewhat to my surprise, I realised a few days ago that I’ve finished the final structural draft of my thesis. How could such a milestone sneak up on me by surprise, you ask? Because, of course, like an idiot, I was trying to press a megalomaniacal amount of content into the thesis (I’ve been working [...]

Thesis, Writing

Secret Marx Decoder Ring

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 12, 2009

All right. As long as I’m here, maybe one brief comment about the thesis. Although generally I’m happy with the revision process, one of the nagging worries I have to keep bracketing relates to the number of times I have to quote a passage from Marx and, effectively, say: “What this means is the opposite [...]

Contradiction, Critical Theory, Metatheory, Political Economy

Results of the Immediate Process of Production

2 Comments Posted by on January 12, 2009

Just a quick note to apologise for my ongoing silence: nothing is wrong – quite the contrary – I am currently one very-well-cared-for echidna… The results of my immediate thesis production process, however, have been a long silence on the blog: the sort of writing I’m doing at the moment unfortunately involves a lot of [...]

Miscellaneous

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