A General Theory of Value and Money, part 1
This article sets out the foundations of an axiomatic theory of value and money. read here
A General Theory of Value and Money, part 1
marxism
War, Capitalism, Ecology:
Why can’t Bruno Latour understand anything about them?
Faced with the war that has broken out in Ukraine, the philosopher-ecologist is lost. Overwhelmed by the events, he “does not know how to cope with the two tragedies at once,” that is, Ukraine and global warming. The only claim he
War, Capitalism, Ecology:
Why can’t Bruno Latour understand anything about them?
FX & Imperialism
What affects the exchange rate of a country’s currency? The answer depends on where that country stands in the world economy. Not simply because an exchange rate is the value of one currency versus another, so that you must weigh
Seeking the “Spirit of Capitalism”: The German Historical School and the Controversies about the Origins of Capitalism
The question of the origins or genesis of capitalism preoccupied thewriters of the so-called German Historical School and led to fiercedisputes between them in the first three decades of thetwentieth century. Its “background” was Marx’s theory ofcapitalism and its genesis
Capital theory with Deleuze/Guattari or the Anarchy of Machines – 50 years Anti-Ödipus
The flow of subjective labor and the flow of objective capital. At the moment, more precisely, in the passage of time (which has extended over longer historical periods) in which intrinsically contingent encounters (those of the flows of money-capital and
Capital theory with Deleuze/Guattari or the Anarchy of Machines – 50 years Anti-Ödipus
Financial Capital in the 21th Century / Introduction
published by Palgrave The world economy is still in a phase of secular stagnation with persistently low growth rates of real gross domestic product.[1] The postwar litanies of boundless economic growth repeatedly preached by the representatives of capital and the
Financial Capital in the 21th Century / Introduction
War and Wertkritik / Introduction to Kurz
By charting these inescapable connections with war, Wertkritik runs against the grain of the classic bourgeois thought of the likes of Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. In particular it challenges the idea that capitalist society emerged from, or
War and Wertkritik / Introduction to Kurz
Heterodox Economics vis-à-vis Crisis and Finance.Speculation of the ‘absentee rentier’ or Mechanism of disciplining social action?
The 2007-2008 financial crisis is without precedent in the post-war period, a factacknowledged by the majority of economists. At the same time, the crisis is a ‘marginalmoment’ which unveils and helps us rethink the workings of contemporary capitalism. Thelatter is
From One Conjuncture, the Other, the Afterwardsness of Guattari and Deleuze
This text addresses some difficulties encountered reading Deleuze and Guattari “in situation,” in order to suggest a “symptomal reading” of their historico-conceptual moment. It first reexamines the distinction between a “history of revolutions” and “revolutionary-becoming,”in order to explain the meaning
From One Conjuncture, the Other, the Afterwardsness of Guattari and Deleuze
Deleuze/Guattari and the synthetic Asset
By assets we do not mean – as usually assumed – individual assets or realizable income, nor investments in the form of goods or money, but very specific forms of speculative capital. We assume in this section a progressive differentiation
Deleuze/Guattari and the synthetic Asset
1821. The Revolution, the Nation, the State
The Revolution of 1821, like any other revolution, was a direct intervention of themasses into historical events. The forcible entrance of the masses into the realm ofrulership, which until that time determined their ‘destiny’, created a new political-state edifice and
1821. The Revolution, the Nation, the State