tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post4853606562876249219..comments2023-11-05T03:05:16.380-08:00Comments on No Useless Leniency: Notes on Historical and Speculative MaterialismBenjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-72202473540558346332009-07-19T07:25:00.358-07:002009-07-19T07:25:00.358-07:00Hi again,
Benjamin, my work is the draft chapters...Hi again,<br /><br />Benjamin, my work is the draft chapters of a PhD thesis, so it is work in progress. But I am hoping to put some parts of it in a blog soon. I ll let you know as soon as I do this.<br /><br />And Roger, I completely agree with the metaphor of performance and acts.Minerva's Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133095942862436572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-71719926919804122552009-07-14T10:59:26.532-07:002009-07-14T10:59:26.532-07:00Put me down, too, as one who finds nicole's th...Put me down, too, as one who finds nicole's thesis and papers to be extremely helpful in understanding Marx's project. Not only is she a good writer herself, but she also has a strong sense that those places in Marx's text where a shift of perspective is marked should be taken with the utmost seriousness - which, though it sounds simple, is so often not done. Thus, she doesn't see Capital as a sort of house, built floor by floor, but sees it more like a performance, built up of acts. I think that is important.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-17086601007351382342009-07-14T02:05:55.425-07:002009-07-14T02:05:55.425-07:00I've just started reading N.P.'s thesis fr...I've just started reading N.P.'s thesis from the blog, which I can highly recommend. I'm also quite familiar with Alberto's work, we're friends, and its plays a significant role in my new book. If you could direct me to, or send me, relevant work of yours, I'd be very interested.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-85628973464393466742009-07-14T00:39:14.168-07:002009-07-14T00:39:14.168-07:00Thanks for this nice and well-stated summary of ni...Thanks for this nice and well-stated summary of nicole's piece which I liked very much. For those who do not know, her full PhD thesis (the draft version is at www.roughtheory.org) shows better the value of her very creative and original research project. Her blog discussions reveal how she derived her arguments over time with a close and fascinating reading of hegel and marx. About real abstractions, Alberto Toscano makes a claim consonant with nicole's in his critique of meillassoux. Despite its sophisticated and mind blowing nature, the argument in After the Finitude is unable to grasp how, what is condemned as fanatic and ideological...etc. are in fact lived and practical truths. In my view, both Nicole and Alberto teach us how we should prefer the term 'one-sided' perspective to 'distorted' and how the former is made possible by the everyday social relations in capitalism. In my own ethnographic work I examine market relations from a similar perspective (How the everyday social practices of the market by traders, workers and brokers generate those abstractions, unintentionally but still under compulsion, as nicole says)Minerva's Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133095942862436572noreply@blogger.com