Planning and Anarchy Central planning?! Computers can do it!!! Among the intuitions animating the contemporary left, we must rank rather high the felt sense that powerful new computing technologies now offer a solution to problems of calculation previously insuperable for […]
simple and unfolded value form On the one hand, we take a look at the so-called capital-logical reading (which has been widely discussed since the 1968 student movement, especially in Germany, based on Hans-Georg Backhaus as an analysis of value
If one wants to follow the Japanese philosopher Kojin Karatani, Marx has posed the problem of the value form and value in the course of the theoretical treatment of the antinomy of intrinsic value and value relativism. (Cf. Karatani 2003)
Kojin Karatani and the Historotranscendental Logic of Capital
The actualization of value depends on material, symbolic money, which as the counterpart of value – counterpart, insofar as money nourishes the illusion of being able to give crisisless form to the potentially infinite of exploitation – affirms and actualizes
Introduction Of all the domains of Marxian political economy, nature is by far the most vexing. Is nature an economic input as in the notion of natural resources; is it the object of labour in the process of production; or
VALUE, NATURE, AND THE VORTEX OF ACCUMULATION
Paper presented at “Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today. On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital”, Hofstra University, April 6-7, 2017. “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the
Perfect Machines: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Theory of Value
Michel Husson originally published this landmark article in French as Manuel Perez (1980). This translation makes this historic work accessible to Anglophone readers. It thus offers a new generation of Marx scholars a resource which academic Marxism has rejected, except
Introduction to Michel Husson’s ‘Value and price: a critique of neo-Ricardian claims’
We have nothing to sell you and we are not trying to seduce our fellow proletarians. We are not a groupuscule seeking to compete over prestige or influence with the rest of the other groupuscules and parties which claim to
Against the Valorization of Life – Part I
Brian Massumi, der Tausend Plateaus ins Englische übersetzt hat, plädiert in seinem brandneuen »Postkapitalistischen Manifest« für eine alternative Konzeption des Werts, der zuletzt immer stärker der Komplizenschaft mit normativen Ideologien a la Habermas oder mit der kapitalistischen Macht bezichtigt wurde. Dagegen
Brian Massumis “On the Revaluation of Value” (1)
ABSTRACT: 2017 marks 45 years since the first English publication of Marx’s ‘Notes on machines’ in Economy & Society. This paper critiques how Marx’s ‘Fragment’ has subsequently been repurposed in postoperaist thought, and how this wields influence on contemporary left
Beyond the Fragment: Postoperaismo, postcapitalism and Marx’s ‘Notes on Machines’, 45 years on
Ich stelle hier erstmals die Einleitung zu den im Laika Verlag erschienenen Bänden “Kapitalisierung Bd. 1 – Marx’ Non-Ökonomie” und “Kapitalisierung Bd. II – Non-Ökonomie des gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus” zur Verfügung. Hier das pdf: Einleitung von LaikaTheorie43 Innen Druck-2
