The problem of the program
Notes on revolutionary Marxism The central tenets. (beginning from the ‘Founding Statement’ of the Trotskyist group ‘Permanent Revolution’ to be found online at...
View ArticleInterest and desire
Larvalsubjects has an interesting post on Marx in the academy over here which has generated a lively discussion in which, perhaps unsurprisingly, the question of agency has risen to the fore again....
View ArticleRelations and reactions
In a post on Marx’s dialectical method and Deleuze, Steven Shaviro makes the interesting claim that it is Deleuze’s pluralism that is transcendental. It is the theory of relations that Deleuze has...
View ArticleZizek Omnibus / Lacan dot com
(Updated today, 4thFeb 08, so links work) An email today brings news of a wealth of Zizek material on Lacan.com, all of which looks interesting. Zizek was also on Radio4 yesterday – there is this...
View ArticleSpeak truth to power and let us think again
In the face of neo-liberal austerity there often appears little real hope that another world is possible. Mainstream political parties form their new consensus around the orthodoxy of market...
View ArticleSome thoughts on democracy and the death of Tony Benn
Just like the word 'communism' the concept of 'democracy' is so deeply tainted by its association with capitalism that we face a dangerous problem.
View ArticleNetworked flesh
The question that is pressing in arises from the political problem, the problem of politics in itself, as politics. Put bluntly, why is there such a thing as ‘politics’?
View ArticleThe class war in our heads
Why bother with Freud today, a century after his work and ideas first began to have their effect? Is psychoanalysis really taken seriously anymore? Isn’t the whole dirty, sorry, splintered image of...
View ArticleReading Notes 2982015
I've been struck by the a-signifying and machinic recently, so this is part of some research into that area. Brief notes on an essay entitled 'A-signifying semiotics' by Gary Genosko.
View ArticleNew course beginning soon
This is a short explanation of what the new course, The Freudian Spaceship, is all about (starting May 24th 2021).
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