...George Caffentzis After a short historical and conceptual introduction to the labor theory of value (LTV), it is noted that the oil industry presents a paradox to the LTV. How is it that oil companies employ relatively few workers and invest in a relatively large amount of machinery and still...

... . Jennifer Cotter New Materialism and the Labor Theory of Value At a historical moment in which more areas and levels of existence and life are being subordinated to global commodity production and exchange and are subject to the exigencies of economic and ecological crisis, “new materialism” has...

... of the connection between science, technology, and labor in the Grundrisse , I argue that the dominant readings of the “ludo economy” of video games work to ideologically obscure a revolutionary critique of digital capitalism based upon the labor theory of value. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 video games...

...Phillip E. Wegner I reflect upon the value of Jacques Lacan's 1969–70 Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis , for thinking about the challenges we face as scholars and teachers working in the contemporary university. As with Lacan's title for this seminar, my title has a range of meanings...

... a world in which technology is perceived to have supplanted labor to become the primary source of value, freeing humanity to concern itself with the problems of work or the (re)distribution of objects in the world. Returning to the theory of the law of value from diverse per- spectives...

...: Basic Questions.” In Marxism and the Critique of Value , edited by Larson Neil Nilges Mathias Robinson Josh Brown Nicholas , 1 – 15 . Chicago : MCM . Robert Faivre Jameson’s Spiritual Reawakening Labor Theory in the Time of Wal-Mart Fredric Jameson’s reading of Wal...

..., Marx asks why the “scientific” rec- ognition of the real social relations mystified in commodity exchange does nothing to dispel the illusion of the commodity. Why does the epochal discovery of the labor theory of value by bourgeois econo- mists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo not lead...

... the complexity of their lives. And I'll tell you something, we've gotten into some ugly fights. We've had people who've said that working class studies should only be about the labor theory of value. Linkon At the same time, we've had people who've said working class studies should be only about...

... an interesting experiment in the labor theory of value. For a few months, I was sharecropping I-5 six days a week and then teaching one night at the UCLA planning school (neither employer knew about the other). My finding? Sixty hours of tough, socially-necessary labor brought...

... their employers by malingering. When you compare this with Marx s labor theory of value, by which almost ALL profits from capital originally come from appropriating a major part of the workers labor-power (that is, unpaid working hours in comparison to what they actually produce), the divergent class interests...

... that create complex academic insights and 192 the minnesota review innovative ideas. Too often, this aspect of the criticism is muted or left implied. Criticism on academic labor has the capacity to argue more directly for the value of unhurried...

... of extracting surplus value from African American labor-power. It is a fantasy that rests on “a strategy for asserting, in coded form, a wise relation to information that others cannot or will not handle” (61). Literary authors, Szalay argues, communicated this code to endorse the Democratic Party...

... of Mobility, edited by Vicki Squire, 121 42. London: Routledge. Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Nielsen. 2011. Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Roy, Ananya. 2016. Who s Afraid of Postcolonial Theory? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40...

... of production. The city has always been the name for the point of intersection between flows of money and flows of labor-power. The city, and more specifically the privileged site of the factory as point of production, has always constituted the arena within which surplus- value is extracted...

...-, and semi-regulated employment, an arrangement that makes the university ripe for exploitative labor practices. For example, undergraduate student labor is routinely made invisible under the guise of "service learning." Bousquet cited a list of well-known exploitative culprits: first, the decrease...

... of decision's renewal. This phenomenon, along with the curtailed temporalities that it engenders, is crystallized, though in a different register, in Beckett's 1981 play for television, Quad . © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 neoliberalism post-Fordism environmental power contingent labor liquidity...

... escape. This is not to reinforce our real binding to labor but a way to suggest new forms of mapping and thinking this binding as contradictory and as capable of being exploded from within. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 life labor value Karl Marx Jacques Derrida Works Cited Althusser...

... ranks of corporate executives. With this centralization has come a corresponding decrease in faculty governance and academic freedom. This has been facilitated by a growing reliance on contingent academic labor, including GAs, adjuncts, lecturers and other non-tenure track faculty...

... kinds, contemporary US institutions and their partners are generally structurally reliant on the value they harvest from student time—not just time denominated “labor” but also time allocated to “leisure” and “education.” Low-wage undergraduates, many of them...

... of the founding fathers, necessitating a recommitment to American liberalism’s core values: equality and freedom. While Smith is less interested in advocating a particular political antidote, his rooting of social inequalities in the coercive drive of capitalist accumulation suggests...