maurice steiner

I gave my life to my children on a silver platter

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

yeah the problem on the left today is that we understand the mechanisms of power too well and don’t at all fetishize the image of “the oppressed”

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

After one of Foucault's Paris lectures, Ginzburg, who was in the audience, stood up and said the problem is you are only interested in mechanisms of exclusion. You are not interested in the excluded. One of the great criticisms of Foucault.

[J. History of Ideas @JHIdeas]

Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.” @chrisokane_nyc
https://t.co/z4HYeptQQk

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@meadwaj the article is about a consumer consciousness and political tactic that are peculiar to the time. you want people to be mad about prices (which i support) but that's got nothing to do with thompson's analysis of the circumstances that precipitated those things in the 18th century

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

white people on depop trying to get me to join the RSS?

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

it seems like the book is bad but surely we don’t have to pretend like this review is well written?

[Marx & Philosophy @MarxPhilosophy]

New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:

Richard Gilman-Opalsky on Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

https://t.co/PlbYcNC2Nc

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Noteworthy that neither the mayor of Minneapolis nor the governor of Minnesota threw their support behind this action prior to today. Dem leadership in the state just sat around and watched this unfolded then some, like Mayor Frey rushed to join the photo-ops once it was underway

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@thezachloeffler "delimited" and "freely" doing a lot of work here. marx wasn't using the concepts freely in his 1857 notebooks; he was working them out! he then figured out how to use them more precisely...and did. adorno's got to justify imprecision despite having access to capital

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@chrisokane_nyc i agree that the translation is bad but i think it's saying these societies are dominated by the capitalist mode of production and its describing the form of wealth peculiar to these societies i.e., the wealth of societies (that are) dominated by the capitalist mode of production

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@gusselsprouts @ResistRun also, i think you’re slightly misrepresenting the ALU case. it’s not an equally viable alternate option for many people. ALU relied on the unpaid labor of union staffers too — not something other less high-profile groups can count on

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@gusselsprouts @ResistRun feels a little bad faith to respond like this when you also just suggested that people are just trying to protect their jobs when they advocate this position. you weren’t JUST complaining about union folks being the audience.

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@thezachloeffler strikes me as particularly prescient given the current obsession with "domination by the market" as though the market (or the economy) is merely an aggregating mechanism rather than a fetish with political force

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@thezachloeffler which is to say, this is a modest part of what you might describe as a larger project to describe how we produce this distinction. but it strikes me as an important part?

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@thezachloeffler not sure i follow. what would be "the burden of a historical materialist account" in this case?

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@thezachloeffler i don't think the fact that kant said something like this before is evidence against this point. i also don't think his primary concern here is with false consciousness or mystification fwiw!

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@thezachloeffler definitely historicist! but again in the section you cite the point is that the congealing of economics as a discipline (rather than exclusively neoclassical economics itself) contributes to the taking for granted of this distinction.

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@misterminsoo the main shows regular films but the film society puts on lots of cool/small series

[maurice steiner @filthy_chai]

@misterminsoo https://t.co/sggRbliV5F is the website for the main.

the trylon is volunteer run so they can be slow to respond! but i can try and nudge them for you.