real subsumption

Wandering Abstraction

Von Ray Brassier / 2019-01-20 / Documentation, GenericScience / abstraction, class, communism, Endnotes, marxism, real subsumption, technology

… Since the ‘we’ is constituted by the class relation, the self-overcoming of the ‘we’ is the overcoming of the relation that constitutes it. This is certainly theoretically uncompromising (and admirable because of it). But it is also paradoxical, and …

Wandering Abstraction

Subsumption and Crisis

Von Joshua Clover / 2018-07-09 / EconoFiction, Lexicon / accumulation, class relation, featured, formal subsumtion, machines, real subsumption, reproduction

Though it has various senses in general usage, subsumption is a term of art within Marx’s critical political economy. It is sub-divided into formal subsumption and real subsumption . These designate changes to the production process during the transition to, and …

Subsumption and Crisis

Wandering Abstraction

Subsumption and Crisis

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