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		<title>Elliptical Critique</title>
		<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>Theatricality, Critical Standpoint, and the &#8220;Reality&#8221; of All Moments of Social Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay&#8230; this post originated as a comment to add to the discussion with roger and demet in the thread below, but grew a bit cancerous, so I&#8217;m elevating it to post status.  What I&#8217;ve done here is to replicate the content of my final comment to roger, and then added underneath it what would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irony and Totality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another fragment of offline writing re-posted here &#8211; this one&#8217;s potentially quite rough and ready, and in need of double-checking with the texts to which I refer, so read with all due caution, etc.
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The notion that Capital has certain “literary” features is neither new nor uncommon.  As Wolff (1988) notes, however, until very recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fetish and the Commune</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marx makes significant edits to Capital between the first German edition in 1867 and the second in 1873 &#8211; edits that begin to be articulated in his revisions for the serialised French publication of Capital between 1872 and 1875.  Revisions are particularly heavy in Capital&#8217;s opening chapter &#8211; where the concept of the fetish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essence, Appearance and Elster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m writing on Elster&#8230; another bit that caught my eye in passing&#8230;
Elster (1985:124-25) understands that Hegel is being name-checked when Marx appeals to notions of essence and appearance in discussing the relation of value and price.  Because, however, Elster assumes Marx is attempting to explain movements of price via his theory of value, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Elster&#8217;s Game-Theoretic Concept of Emergence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger&#8217;s comments below on Jon Elster&#8217;s methodological individualism reminded me that I should stash somewhere (like here) a few fragmentary notes on Elster&#8217;s recognition that Marx is making an argument about emergent phenomena &#8211; and the way in which Elster&#8217;s sense of how this sort of argument operates, differs from mine.
In Making Sense of Marx [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring the Social</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick archival post before the weekend steals me away from the blog for a bit &#8211; from the opening chapter of the first edition of Capital, as per Hans Ehrbar&#8217;s translation (106):
The measuring stick for &#8220;being social&#8221; must be borrowed from the nature of the relations peculiar to each mode of production, not from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accidental History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve claimed below that Marx is being ironic &#8211; or, perhaps more accurately, satirical or burlesque &#8211; when he displays forms of analysis that suggest an idealist dialectic playing out in history.  One of the reasons I make this claim is that dialectical gestures of this sort are very regularly followed in Capital by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Heart of Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another fragment on Capital&#8217;s second chapter:  Soon after the dialectical performance discussed below, the text subtly re-establishes the anthropological character of its object of analysis.  The main text introduces a little bit of algebra, giving us an equation for the first exchange of products (181).  In a delightfully ironic footnote hanging from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roughtheory.org/content/our-heart-of-darkness/</link>
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		<title>Notes on I.I. Rubin&#8217;s Qualitative and Quantitative Value Theories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I unfortunately don&#8217;t have the time to write on this topic properly, in a way that would make it accessible to readers who aren&#8217;t familiar with I.I. Rubin&#8217;s work on value theory.  It might, for that matter, look a bit alien to people who are familiar with Rubin, since these are more personal notes [...]]]></description>
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