Capitalism – crisis and critique (defunct)

I have been reading up on Critical Theory and David Harvey’s work on capitalism recently. A couple of links for future reference: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/ http://davidharvey.org/2010/04/enigma-of-capital-lecture-at-lse/ http://davidharvey.org/2010/05/video-the-crises-of-capitalism-at-the-rsa/ http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

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What values are the basis of critical theory’s a) negative critique of the (capitalist) status quo and b) whatever else it proposes as the ideal society to be achieved? My starting points for a discussion of normativity: 1. There is no god so any normative position based on a religion is non-starter, for me at […]

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Published by the University of Tokyo Centre for Philosphy Table of Contents, Copyright Preface: Yasuo Kobayashi : Download Introduction Reconfiguring Historical Time: Moishe Postone’s Interpretation of Marx Viren Murthy : Download 1. Rethinking Marx’s Critical Theory Moishe Postone : Download 2. Critical Theory and the Twentieth Century Moishe Postone : Download 3. The Subject and […]

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As the world is hit by a food crisis, the markets see nothing immoral in skimming off a profit http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/12/tasteles-profiteering-food-crisis

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Today I went to a viewing of Allan Sekula’s 2006 film Lottery of the Sea followed by a symposium to layout and discuss the main themes of the film. The event was entitled Critical Realism and was hosted by CentreCATH at Leeds – A Transdisciplinary Initiative in Cultural Analysis, Theory and History. The film was […]

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This won’t be very systematic but Iwill be keeping notes on this blog on the basic ideas and statements about capitalism.  I have started reading Economics and the Crisis of Ecology by Narindar Singh (3rd edition 1989 OUP). For him the real villain of the piece are the petrochemical and associated industries.  The initial argument of […]

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