From a public lecture in Athens (16/11/2013), at the invitation of and organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and SYRIZA Youth, and originally posted on Chronos … A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in […]
For a theory of destituent power
Over the past century, the nexus of imperialism and financialism has become a major axis of Marxist theory and praxis. Many Marxists consider this nexus to be a prime cause of our worldly ills, but the historical role they ascribe
Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus
Below, we share a chapter of this work entitled, “Of Being-in-Common”, which was also published in united states as a separate essay in a volume entitled, Community at Loose Ends (1991). … What could be more common than to be,
Notes for the London Conference Birbeck College The following are the notes that Jean-Luc Nancy prepared for the conference ‘On the Idea of Communism’, March 2009. An edited version is available in Costas Douzinas & Slavoj Zizek (eds), The Idea of
And labor is everywhere, at all times. When oppression is absolute, there is no more leisure, no more “free time. Sleep is supervised. The meaning of work is then the destruction of work at and through work. But if, as
Some of these ways are obvious, for example, using military power to force another country to submit. Many are not, especially those that are linked into the system that envelops the world economy. Five dimensions of international power can be
Spyros LapatsiorasUniversity of Crete, spirosla@gmail.comJohn MiliosNational Technical University of Athens, john.milios@gmail.com1. The prevailing heterodox approaches to neoliberalism and financializationA crucial aspect of many heterodox approaches to modern capitalism, finacializationand crisis is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of
Global finance as capital rule. The “creative” role of the ECB
This article utilises the new reading of Marx found in the work of Michael Heinrich to ana-lyse the creative industries. It considers the role played in the production of value by the labour that takes place in the sphere of
Creative Industries, Value Theory and Michael Heinrich’s New Reading of Marx
With money, one can potentially trade all objects, products and relations of an economy as commodities, as purchasable objects, while conversely commodities are produced exclusively in order to turn them into money. Because of this ubiquitous function of money alone,
The distinction between financial and real capital
An Invited-then-Rejected Interview with Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan The CasP approach is radically different from conventional political economy. In the conventional view, mainstream as well as heterodox, capital is seen a ‘real’ economic entity engaged in the production of
Lucretius was a materialist … read here
Thought in Motion – Lucretius`materialist practice
Published a century after Marx’s Capital, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle was described upon its release as ‘the Capital of the new generation’ (Le Nouvel Observateur). However, the book’s content has almost never been seriously examined alongside the
From the commodity to the spectacle: Debord’s Marx