What in the hell …

Some notes on some books, two of which have been recalled by some accursed other library user before I’ve read much of them. Curse you, other library user! (more…)

New piece out by the Free Association. I had a small hand in it, wish it’d been a bigger hand. I like those folks very, very much.

For starters, read their manifesto. (According to a note, in addition to Miguel Benasayag both Balibar and Badiou were members of the group, which I didn’t know. Must get more info on that.)

It’s an essay by Schmitt. Luke posted a link to a PDF copy of it in his contribution to the LS Schmittfest. I’ve been reading and taking notes on it. (more…)

Pasted below is part two of my b-day celebration offering for Marx’s hundredsomethingth. (more…)

I found a reference to this book, Provincializing Europe, by Dipesh Chakrabarty, in one of the two passages from Mezzadra that I’m still finishing translating for the birthday gift to Marx. I dug the reference so I got the book out from the library. I’ve only just started it but I’m liking it. (more…)

And worse, when you’re late in sending it. A translation, clearly. Or cake and beer. I don’t know how to upload cake or beer, so a translation it is. Belated birthday wishes for dear departed KM. Angela had suggested a celebratory blogweave but I found myself all wrote out - much more inclined to reading at the now - re: Marx in particular, that is. (Sorry Karl, it’s not you. It’s me. I’m just not as good at parties. I’m better w/ small dinners. And unions.) I’d be keen for some group reading and discussification, if anyone’s interested. In particular, the so-called “unpublished sixth chapter” to capital (the name escapes me offhand, the Immediate Results of the Process of Production, maybe?) and the Fragment on Machines. Any takers? I’ve started the former but not the latter. (more…)

Answering, of course, requires being able to say what’s old about the past and what is and is not old about the present. In the context of a longer post, Steve Shapiro at Pinocchio Theory kindly responded to my notes on Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” (more…)