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		<title>Elliptical Critique</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light posting for the moment, as it&#8217;s the beginning of our term here, and so things are quite hectic, but I wanted to pick up on one small point that had occurred to me in the course of responding to one of roger&#8217;s recent posts on Marx.
I&#8217;ve written quite a lot, at various times, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Roger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger is complaining about the long silence, and asking me to recycle old content if nothing else to keep things a bit noisier around here&#8230;  I had been planning to break my silence with a post about sex in Capital (all together now:  &#8220;ewwww!&#8221;), but since I keep having to defer writing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immanence and Materialism Conference Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another talk below the fold&#8230;  this time from the Immanence and Materialism conference &#8211; which proved to be a very good event, with a collection of excellent papers that, I understand, will soon be collected for online publication at a conference website &#8211; I&#8217;ll post a link to the blog when I have one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circular Reasoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been reading a work that makes the very common argument that Hegel begins the Science of Logic with the category of Being because that category is the most abstract and free of determination possible &#8211; qualities that apparently assure us that Hegel isn&#8217;t presupposing any more than he absolutely has to, at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Form Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most often overlooked elements of Marx&#8217;s critique of political economy, is that Marx views the political economists as reductive materialists.  The nature of this critique becomes clear at least from chapter 3 of Capital, where Marx introduces the concept of &#8220;social metabolism&#8221; &#8211; the process by which material needs are met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Abstraction Before Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marx starts what is now published as the introduction to the Grundrisse:
The object before us, to begin with, material production.
It takes over 800 pages of manuscript before he arrives at the starting point he retains in Capital:
(1) Value
This section to be brought forward.
The first category in which bourgeois wealth presents itself is that of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop: With What Must the Thesis Begin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This coming Friday, I have to fulfil a mandatory pre-submission requirement for the thesis that basically involves presenting on the structure and the major claims of the thesis, and then taking questions from faculty and students who happen to attend the event.  The faculty who attend are provided with the abstract, first chapter, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop: Introduction &#8211; Historical Materialism and Real Abstraction</title>
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		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/thesis-workshop-introduction-historical-materialism-and-real-abstraction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit rough and ready, but I&#8217;ll post the working introduction to the thesis here anyway.  If I keep this introduction in anything like its current form, I&#8217;ll need to make some slight modifications to several of the later chapters, since the introduction currently covers some of the ground discussed in later chapters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop: What a Piece of Work Is Man</title>
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		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/thesis-workshop-what-a-piece-of-work-is-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay.  Last substantive chapter of the thesis.  This chapter was very difficult to write.  I think it was worth the difficulty.  But perhaps that&#8217;s just relief at finishing the argument&#8230;
This chapter outlines the derivation of the category of labour-power, explores how this derivation fundamentally alters our sense of the opening categories, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop: Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta</title>
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		<comments>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/thesis-workshop-hic-rhodus-hic-salta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we&#8217;ve finally escaped chapter 3 of Capital, a quick breeze through chapters 4 and 5, focussing on the imagery in chapter 4 of capital-as-Geist, and then on the impasse Marx sets up in chapter 5, as a wedge through which he will drive the category of labour-power in the following chapter.  
Chapter [...]]]></description>
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