... 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...

... ontological analysis of study as a state of educational potentiality, we explore its political and economic dimensions through a psychoanalytic-Marxist framework. In particular, we draw upon Marxist notions of reification to understand how learning and debt are lived by the student, and in turn, how Jacques...

... 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...

...), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture . Illinois : University of Illinois Press . Zeitlin M. 1970 . Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class . New York : Harper Torch Books . © BERG 2011 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 Ernesto “Che” Guevara Marxist theory José Martí...

..., 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...

... to critique the control and subsumption during the revolutionary decades 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...

... 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...

... philosophy, Bosteels's book is making a definitive statement. Only, while antagonism, history, dialectics, and such Marxist themes are clearly present here, there are lingering questions about the status of economics and capitalism itself in this Marxism. Bosteels refers to these concerns: “Badiou, according...

.... 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...

... 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...

...” 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 was the logical heart of that battle for a century). It is present more than ever in our activities and our...

... – 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...

... 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 by including even this group among those embodying new values with revolutionary potential...