Why should human organisms and their cultural patterns of motion be fundamentally different than other natural patterns? Human bodies have the same fractal patterns in their heartbeats, breathing, eye movements, vascular systems, metabolisms, speech,1and nested brainwave frequencies.2 Much of human […]
Afterword: Coercion and Historical Patterns of Motion
First published as a postface to the Italian edition of Gianni Carchia’s Orfismo e tragedia. Il mito trasfigurato (Quodlibet, 2019). I’ll take the liberty here to say that freedom is always clandestine, that truth and justice are as well. And that they
My hope of the colloquium is to arrive at the possibility of reading the nexus of the two orders the “theological-politico” within the contemporary climate of the professionalized intellectual world. To do this, I will begin with an axiom: Walter
The three main concepts of Lukács’ famous book History and Class Consciousness are already contained in the title: History, Class and Consciousness. 1 These three concepts are especially developed in the longest and most important essay of the book, “Reification
Lukács ’ Idea of Communism and its Blind Spot: Money
Strength of hatred in Marx.Fighting spirit of the working class.Interlay revolutionary destruction and the idea of redemption.— Walter Benjamin, ‘Notes on the Concept of History,’ (1939) 1. To have repudiated with the utmost vehemence the political significance of Millenarianism is
From Theological to Historical Apocatastasis: Notes on Benjamin’s ‘Theologico-Political Fragment’
Differing approaches to the issue of the beginnings of capitalismimply different conceptualization of what capitalism is. This paperelaborates on the notion of original accumulation. It utilizes theMarxist notion of the mode of production to provide the conceptof the historicalfigure which
Marx’s Inquiry into the Birth of Capitalism: Why Does It Matter?