Another post consisting of notes written in bits and pieces over much time which means I’ll need to review it when I’m done and try to write a a summing up. This is all I’m capable of much of the time anymore. Still need to write one of these on ch25 of Capital! Anyways, this is on Don Hamerquist’s essay on Althusser. I’m about 2/3 of the way through it, will just keep updating this post as I read further. Folk should read the essay, folk interested in Althusser and also folk following the recent Lenin discussions. (more…)
November 2, 2009
… does Hamerquist have to say about Althusser?
November 7, 2006
… is the relationship between early and mature Althusser?
In the introduction to the collection the Philosophy of the Encounter, the translator G. Goshgarian stresses the continuity between the late work included in that collection and the earlier works. (more…)
September 16, 2006
… secures the encounter?
In an earlier post on Althusser I suggested that attention to (producing) the encounters within organizing be taken as a response to Althusser’s aleatory materialism. I still hold to that. On the other hand, there are other responses. (more…)
September 10, 2006
… did I read this weekend?
Althusser. (more…)
June 16, 2006
… is the role of Marxist theory?
I’ve just started the first long (and the longest) essay in the Philosophy of the Encounter, “Marx in his Limits.” (more…)
June 14, 2006
… is class struggle at the level of ideology?
I don’t know Althusser’s work. I was uninterested in it for a long time - categories like ideology and structure don’t interest me very much. My impression was that his work was largely about the successful continued accomplishment of the reproduction of capital, which doesn’t strike me as of much use to articulating the breakdowns thereof. I’ve become more interested, while those concerns remain, in large part via exposure to folks I respect very much who have made use of Althusser (Angela and David are high on that list, as is Jason Read). (more…)
April 14, 2006
… was the UJCML?
The letters stand for Union de la Jeunesse Communiste Marxiste-Léniniste, which translates as Young Communist League (Marxist-Leninist). (more…)
March 21, 2006
… does Tronti mean by ‘intellectuals’?
The Tronti symposium has started at Long Sunday. Jon’s contribution has started a bit of discussion on what Tronti means by the term ‘intellectual’. That’s actually one of the terms I planned to use this blog to get my head clearer on when I initially set this thing up. Haven’t done so yet. (more…)