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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>Marx &amp; Philosophy Society Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will put up a proper version of this paper on the Marx &#038; Philosophy Society website soon.  I just wanted to post the text of the actual talk here for archiving purposes in the interim.
The event was fantastic, and the discussion following the paper was rich and thought-provoking &#8211; it&#8217;s a wonderful event, [...]]]></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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<title>Thesis Workshop: Crossed Circuits</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/thesis-workshop-crossed-circuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After this chapter, readers will finally be able to make their escape from the deconstructive thicket that is the third chapter of Capital.  Before we part ways with this chapter, though, Marx engages in some extremely clever moves to begin to open a wedge through which he will finally drive the category of capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop:  Forms of Motion</title>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/thesis-workshop-forms-of-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another thesis chapter in the series that focusses on Capital&#8217;s third chapter.  This chapter spends quite a lot of time using the new material Marx is providing to take a much closer look at the opening categories of value and abstract labour.  It also explores the implications of some brief comments Marx makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop: How Does Essence Appear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be in transit for the next couple of days, with very limited net access, and so won&#8217;t be able to respond to comments or mails.  This and the next couple of thesis chapter posts have been queued, so if the blog does its job, they&#8217;ll keep trundling their way into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thesis Workshop: Personifying Commodities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N Pepperell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay.  Now we get to the new stuff.  The argument put forward in this and the remaining chapters, although it has been discussed on the blog in somewhat abstract terms from time to time, will probably seem at least somewhat new &#8211; and at the very least much more fully developed than what [...]]]></description>
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