Time, Labour and Social Domination
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View ArticleDigital labour, academic labour and Karl Marx
Below are some initial notes on Christian Fuchs’ book, Digital Labour and Karl Marx (2014). I think it was published about six weeks ago and as far as I can see, has yet to receive any substantive...
View ArticleIs the worker co-operative form suitable for a university? (Part 3)
In some earlier notes, I asked whether the worker co-operative form is suitable for a university in light of how the international co-operative movement defines the ‘character’ of worker co-operatives...
View ArticleOn the ‘abolition of labour’
First, from Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution, pp.292-3 “The labor process itself is the life of the proletariat. Abolition of the negative ordering of labor, alienated labor as Marx terms it, is...
View ArticleOpen Co-operatives (2)
In the first part of my notes on ‘open co-operatives’, I focused on Michel Bauwen’s most recent statement, Why We Need a New Kind of Open Cooperatives for the P2P Age. There, he outlines four...
View ArticleReal subsumption
A quote from Moishe Postone (2012: 18-20) See also Endnotes for a useful overview. “In tracing the development of production in capitalism, Marx distinguishes what he calls the formal and real...
View ArticleResearch and resistance
Below are some notes for something I’m writing but have decided not to use, mainly because I’m relying too heavily on Postone’s extensive though singular critique of Habermas. I originally wrote it...
View ArticleThe treadmill of capitalism
“In a society in which material wealth is the form of social wealth, increased productivity results either in a greater amount of wealth or in the possibility of a corresponding reduction in labor...
View ArticlePostone on power, structure and agency
A recurring question that students raise is, in one way or another, a question about the relationship between social structures and human agency (e.g. the regulatory power of state education and the...
View ArticleReview: Negotiating Neoliberalism. Developing Alternative Educational Visions
Below is an extended pre-print of a book review for Power and Education journal. The first half talks directly about the book; the remainder tries to offer a critical response. Rudd, Tim and Goodson,...
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