... turn to the neoliberal theory of human capital, which offers a more fruitful avenue for the analysis of digitally mediated “living labor” than the Autonomist Marxist theory that inspired Terranova’s analysis, by elucidating how a logic based on competition, entrepreneurialism, and speculation has...

... today, this is because its reprogramming of the pitch of existence ( Daseinsstimmung ) paves the way for a “critique of extremist reason,” a “post-Marxist theory of enrichment,” a “new interpretation of dreams,” and a “general economy” of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. © BERG 2007...

... technology is constitutive of hominization, it cannot constitute per se a means to a human end. The Marxist theory of production remains instrumentalist and humanist. As a result, Marxism may underestimate the difficulty of political adoption (or at least conceive of it in exclusively class terms). Second...

... for the indifference of im-potential study. In other words, neither classical and romantic theories of Bildung nor mechanized processes of learning will do. Rather we need a studious university. It is our goal to have provided the Marxist-psychoanalytic groundwork not only for personal but also institutional...

... flagpole to hang it on when we return to work the next day. It is within this context that Dean’s intervention is not only welcome but necessary. She mobilizes forms of Marxist theory that have been quietly coming to the fore over the past decade—think Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek—and brings them...

... identifies some of the limits of this “cyber-libertarian 2.0” discourse. It does so first by drawing upon post-Marxist discourse theory to outline the central elements of the discourse, and second by contrasting the cyber-libertarian understanding of “the situation” with a critical political economy reading...

... professor that my Marxist theory, with its class-based conflict model of modernity and antifascist culture, had, in today’s jargon of inauthenticity, “an app for that” called socialist revolution. Bauman replied that, while he was not unsympathetic to my Marxism wanting more than a theoretical result...

..., proto-digital informatics. The other explores the granularization and intensification of this informatics through the contemporary imaginaries and practices of digital information and communication. Weaving together the information-theoretical insights of cybernetics and Marxist theory, the first...

... at the same time. Hence at times the adoption of totalizing explanations of power, often drawn from European Marxist theory and its theoretical and philosophical context, is simply a critique of the very Englishness of the context of cultural studies, while at other times the affirmation of culture...

... IN THE UK 2011 Ernesto “Che” Guevara Marxist theory José Martí Cuban cultural philosophy Cuban culture and arts A powerful idea, waved before the world at the proper time, can stop a squadron of iron-clad ships. José Martí Serving as a small token of acknowledgment of the fiftieth...

... of—in their view—properly “free” and “independent” intellectuals, the last wave of post-Mao Chinese humanism threw the baby of anticapitalist Marxist theory out with the bathwater of bureaucratic control. Whatever the limits and problems of the Mao decades' treatment of intellectuals—and this was a failure...

... Press . De Genova Nicholas . 2013 . “ Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion .” Ethnic and Racial Studies 36 ( 7 ): 1180 – 98 . De Genova Nicholas . 2016 . “ The ‘Crisis’ of the European Border Regime: Towards a Marxist Theory...

... Drott 2015 . 4 For a more comprehensive account of Anglo-American music studies’ checkered relation to Marxist theory, see Gopinath 2006 . 5 Two recent special issues of the journals Third Text and TDR are devoted to this question; see Dimitrikaki and Lloyd 2017 ; and Schneider 2018...

... previous books) within an analysis of the capitalist system (147). Baudrillard retains Marxist theory as a theory that identifies three stages of value: a first stage, “when only the superfluous, the excess of production over consumption was exchanged”; a second stage, when “all products, all industrial...

...Ed Pluth In a sense, Bruno Bosteels is making the case in this outstanding book that Alain Badiou is still more of a Marxist than he is the Platonist he frequently makes himself out to be and is taken to be by others. As Bosteels has claimed in his earlier articles, some of which are included...

... permeated numerous theoretical positions from Marxist theory to feminism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, environmental studies, and postmodernism, as well as sophisticated and strategic combinations of theoretical influences that fall outside of easy categorizations, no matter how open...

.... 1–2), it does matter what utensils he has to offer. Yet, as cultural theory and political critique, Hutnyk's conceptual tools do not seem the best of all possible tools for a bad Marxist. References Bakhtin Mikhail Mikhailovich . 1988 . The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M...

... way up, to stand them on their “real” foundations. Hence the well-known schema of “base” and “superstructures.” Thinking, henceforth, would mean engaging in a battle for the meaning of the “real.” But the battle over the “real” is not over, even after the decline of Marxist theory (which...

... – Formalism and Marxism (1979) – explored the relations between the aesthetic theories of the Russian Formalists and those of Althusserian Marxism. This was followed by a more extensive exploration of Marxist aesthetics from a Foucauldian position in Outside Literature (1990). This work on literary theory...

.... There is … sensitivity against domination: the feeling, the awareness, that the joy of freedom and the need to be free must precede liberation. ( Marcuse 1969: 89 ) While not without awareness of the limits of hippie political consciousness, Marcuse departs radically from traditional Marxist assumptions...