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Comment on Academic Nihilism by ann atta

ann atta — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:46:17 +0000

…as meaninglessness is a ‘symptom of the universe’ — if i may ‘crib’ from Messrs. IOMMI, WARD, BUTLER, and OSBOURNE, ( ;-}) — it’s not relevant at what level of the economic spectrum one operates…if an academic intellectual (a cosmologst/philosopher) who wrote from a passive perspective on nihilism would expound for us the ramifications of current astrophysical theory (the future of an accelerating, expanding universe and its ultimate heat death — with or without proton decay — loss of all matter/energy and the ability to do work) as a coping mechanism, it may be some small consolation (apologies to BOETHIUS) for humankind and therefore MEANINGFUL…

Comment on Fanaticism, political religion and Savonarola by suibne

suibne — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:13:31 +0000

air castle conversations with air castle archers on air castle ramparts.
suibne

Comment on Academic Nihilism by N

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:30:26 +0000

I left academia after some infuriating years of trying to change things from within. I find Thoreau has some nifty ideas that work if you wish to subvert the status quo, and following him, you can’t do that working from the inside. Good post.

Comment on Quantity-quality transformations and Lenin’s idea of lower communism by skepoet

skepoet — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:37:57 +0000

Reblogged this on Symptomatic Redness.

Comment on Sexism and Narrative: why Cash shouldn’t have proposed to Carter on stage by T Williams

T Williams — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:29:28 +0000

Perhaps I’m missing something having read your above article, but I fail to see why the film is sexist. I think it is the exact opposite – it reverses the traditional gender roles of it’s main characters. A classic fairytale, like Snow White, might have the central character be a damsel in distress who is beset by external and internal antagonisms and in need of a secondary male character to save her. In Walk The Line Johnny Cash is the main character, beset by internal and external antagonisms and lacking the ability to extricate himself from this situation by himself. He is quite literally saved by the secondary character of June. It is her actions alone that save him, literally standing on the porch with a shotgun to scare off the demon of drugs. Like many a great fairytales it ends with the main character marrying the person who saved them and who they love. I would argue that this reversal of gender roles wouldn’t have been possible at any other point in the history of human storytelling prior to the Second Wave Feminists and is a fine example of how enlightened we have become in terms of gender discourse in our society over the last forty years.

Comment on Why communists need moon bases, or in other words, a vision for post-capitalism by shiftmagazine

shiftmagazine — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:40:59 +0000

Hello.

I would love to speak to you about this article and a possible commission on the theme of ‘Luxury For All’ for Shift Magazine (www.shiftmag.co.uk).

If you can email me at shiftmagazine(at)hotmail.co.uk that’d be fantastic.

Many thanks,

Lauren

Shift Mag

Comment on Red Tory’s liberal racism and the BNP bogeyman by Jeremiah Carroll .

Jeremiah Carroll . — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:28:11 +0000

Reminded of Morgan Freeman� s interview, short excerpt here, that the best way to get rid of racism is to stop talking about it.

Comment on Why communists need moon bases, or in other words, a vision for post-capitalism by Michael-

Michael- — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:41:12 +0000

Christ on a stick! Great post, great blog – I just now found this site. All the best. M-

Comment on Why communists need moon bases, or in other words, a vision for post-capitalism by The End of Capitalism « Indecent Bazaar

The End of Capitalism « Indecent Bazaar — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:28:20 +0000

[...] come to inhabit the social margins in the realm of experiment (as recently illustrated over at Necessary Agitation). As J.K. Gibson-Graham contend: “it is the way capitalism has been ‘thought’ that [...]

Comment on On the stalled project of Marxian economics by Åge Olav Mariussen

Åge Olav Mariussen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:22:56 +0000

You have a great project! I have four comments:

1. You will find the explanation to the gap between Marx political analysis and his Capital project in his own plan for the Capital, which was outlined in Grundrisse. Capital was unfinished. It was supposed to be 7 volumes! Volume 3 was heavily edited by Engels, and in some of the English versions also by the Marx Engels Institute in Moscow. Capital was intended to end with an analysis of the state in Volume 7, where the theroy of value introduced in Volume 1 was to be related to the analysis of politics and the state.

2. When it comes to the bridge between contemporary neo-classical economic mathematical models and Marx I will advice you to read Adolph Löwe. Löwe provides a consistent theory explaining the shortcommings not just of of Keynes, but also of the current hegemonic models of capitalism, inspired py physics. He used these models himself, and he saw their failure. Löwe argued for a synthesis between phenological sociology and economics, and he outlined a theory of growth where you can find the answer to your questions of the analysis of post-capitalist economics.

3. Post capitalist economics is the forms of economic organisation and theory which can overcome the weaknesses in the relations of production which prevents not just growth, but also a rational adaptation between man and nature. These weaknesses are unfolding today, through the interrelated economic and ecological crisis.

4. I think the major reason for the failure of contemporary left-wing politics to come up with an answer is the love affair between the left
and Keynes. The Keynesians promised us the solution in 2008, to bail out the banks. In doing so, they went to bed with the class enemy, financial capitalism. But the current Keynesian symbiosis between the state and the financial class is not able to recreate growth, nor make workable new Kyoto agreements. If the “left” is going to have any future at all, it has to start with a critique of Keynes and the neo-classical economic theory which refers to him. In this respect, Löwe provides a useful point of departure.