What in the hell …

I’m working on reading some passages of Agamben, Benjamin, and Marx with and against each other. Here’s my notes thus far, mostly quotes. (more…)

Really the issue just now is use value, though in a minute it will also start to touch on the proletariat and bare life cuz those are other things I’ve been thinking about. I just started Agnes Heller’s The Theory of Need in Marx. I suspect, if the introduction is any indication, that it will take a turn or turns which I won’t like. In the three or so pages of the actual book so far, though, there’s much that I like. (more…)

John! I sent you an email and it got returned to me as failed. Get in touch please with another email address.

Colin and I talked on the phone recently, talked about music. He’d recently gotten a copy of the (International) Noise Conspiracy’s fine album “Armed Love.” The (I)NC was a formative part of my intellectual life in late adolescence/early adulthood, just as Bad Religion and Fugazi were in early- and mid-adolescence. A number of the books I read which had a huge impact on me were directly because the (I)NC recommended them in the liner notes for “Good Morning, Changing Weather” and it’s through those liner notes that I found about aut-op-sy, through which I met Angela, David Geo, John, Jon, Steve, folk from what would become the Free Association and G-O, and many others. (more…)

A post at Steve S’s reminded me of some stuff I’ve been meaning to paste up hear for ease of access, which in turn reminded me to do a bit of interwebsearching (more…)