http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/ theory in the rough Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:54:32 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/comment-page-1/#comment-26514 Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: A Way of Visualising Abstract Labour and Value Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:35:35 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/#comment-26514 [...] I find it useful to think about abstract labour in terms of sets and subsets, each enacted in collective practice. [...] [...] I find it useful to think about abstract labour in terms of sets and subsets, each enacted in collective practice. [...]

]]> http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/comment-page-1/#comment-25217 What in the hell … :: … does Marx mean by free labor? :: February :: 2008 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:29:15 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/#comment-25217 [...] of the point that I take NP to be making about Marx’s voice in her extended and excellent series of posts on the beginning of _Capital 1_ [...] [...] of the point that I take NP to be making about Marx’s voice in her extended and excellent series of posts on the beginning of _Capital 1_ [...]

]]> http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/comment-page-1/#comment-20652 Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: The Universal as Particular Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:50:40 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/#comment-20652 [...] I think that some important elements of Marx’s critique hinge on the notion that abstract labour is collective labour - but collective labour in a specific, alienated form - collective labour as a specific form of unintentional domination. [...] [...] I think that some important elements of Marx’s critique hinge on the notion that abstract labour is collective labour – but collective labour in a specific, alienated form – collective labour as a specific form of unintentional domination. [...]

]]> http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/comment-page-1/#comment-20152 Roughtheory.org » Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1: Subjects, Objects and Things in Between Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:06:19 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/capital_1g/#comment-20152 [...] Nevertheless, this small hint begins to react back on the modes of presentation with which this text begins, and the strategic intention of the earlier sections becomes a bit clearer. At this point, it begins to become clear that the opening definitions, which appear to concern certain economic concepts about material wealth, are always and already quite sweeping categories capturing forms of subjectivity - encompassing modes of the experience of self, forms of embodiment, possible means of practising selves in their self-relation, relation to others, and relation to a nonhuman environment. [...] [...] Nevertheless, this small hint begins to react back on the modes of presentation with which this text begins, and the strategic intention of the earlier sections becomes a bit clearer. At this point, it begins to become clear that the opening definitions, which appear to concern certain economic concepts about material wealth, are always and already quite sweeping categories capturing forms of subjectivity – encompassing modes of the experience of self, forms of embodiment, possible means of practising selves in their self-relation, relation to others, and relation to a nonhuman environment. [...]

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