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Money and State as Transactional Realities | the debt laboratory
https://debtlaboratory.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/money-and-state-as-transactional-realities
April 26, 2013. Money and State as Transactional Realities. As Abrams argued in his ‘Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State’. The public reification, no less and acquires an overt symbolic identity progressively divorced from practice as an illusory account of practice . In his landmark essay ‘Limits of the State’. Mitchell accepts that the state is seen as. Distinguishing itself, as an abstract and conceptual phenomena, from a backdrop reality of concrete actions and practices that is seen as.
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Why Every Commodity Is a Symbol | the debt laboratory
https://debtlaboratory.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/why-every-commodity-is-a-symbol
May 7, 2013. Why Every Commodity Is a Symbol. While we are often reminded of the peculiarities involved in endowing this one commodity with the unique ability to buy, we are less sensitive to the way other commodities are fashioned to be bought. But also begin to be produced not for immediate use but predominantly for further exchange. As Marx talks about at length in Notebook 4 of the Grundrisse. This exchange is not an act of. For him [the buyer of labour power], not an act of. They are ‘precommensurat...
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Insurance as the Re-Production of Risk | the debt laboratory
https://debtlaboratory.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/insurance-as-the-cancellation-and-production-of-risk
October 9, 2013. Insurance as the Re-Production of Risk. Risk-taking but which simultaneously insure. It does not matter how high it is, there will always be a pricing mechanism which allows it to be sold further down the line. Even throughly bankrupt entities can be bought and sold, as long as the likelihood of extracting some minimal amount of wealth from them is believed to be present. Let’s imagine a bizarre scenario where. Risk-taking, for more. All this contributes to the sense that our capitalist ...
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Toscano, Lukács, and the Aesthetics of Totality | the debt laboratory
https://debtlaboratory.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/toscano-lukacs-and-the-aesthetics-of-totality
July 1, 2013. Toscano, Lukács, and the Aesthetics of Totality. Alberto Toscano has yet another fantastic essay out. It’s called Seeing It Whole: Staging Totality in Social Theory and Art. I’m not going to summarize or engage with the whole argument of the essay, nor talk about Toscano’s brilliantly chosen examples. What I’m interested in, is pushing a point concerning the exact nature of ‘totality’ which Toscano is grappling with. This clearly leads to the question of what. The combination of which would...