Capitalism – crisis and critique (defunct)

Chains and brands will develop. Management tasks will be consolidated. It makes no sense for every school to be a procurement agent, every school to have an account with a stationer. Some of the tasks of consolidation that have been poorly discharged by local education authorities (LEAs) will be taken over by charitable foundations, by co-operatives of teachers and, in time, by private companies.

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I was impressed with the thinking behind Sekula’s approach to documentary photography and film that I posted on a little while ago (http://terrywassall.org/blogs/capitalism/2010/05/01/the-realism-of-the-abstact-an-encounter-with-sekula/) and have been thinking about how these ideas could be used to write a sort of material and economic history of an everyday object that would reveal in detail the process of […]

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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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