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Chris O'Kane
2 years
As a 43-year-old member of a 4th generation Quaker family this really hits home: (the guy on the right even looks like my dad did when I was young)
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"the genius of Marx consisted precisely in the fact that, filled with disgust, he tackled exactly that which he found disgusting: the economy" -- Adorno
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3 years
New proofs just dropped!
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2 years
Walter Benjamin and The Critique of Political Economy is now out
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10 months
whispers Habermas was never critical theory
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9 months
Everyone -- especially people trained in critical theory in the USA -- should really read this book:
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2 years
In this flesh and the green even matches my office wall
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7 months
The paperback of Adorno and Marx is now out!
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11 months
Volume 1 is easier to read and understand than the 18th Brumaire.
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What Marxist take will have you like this?
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Chris O'Kane
8 months
My contribution to reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the Frankfurt school uses Samuel Moyn and William Schuerman’s incisive critiques of the lack of political economy in contemporary Habermasian critical theory as a jumping-off point. 🧵
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Chris O'Kane
9 months
The description of Capital in the Princeton translation is blowing my mind, especially when you compare it to the description of Capital in the Fowkes translation.
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3 years
Word is out:
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4 years
9 months into sheltering in place. This is the person i've interacted with the most outside my household
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Chris O'Kane
4 months
We regret to announce that this event is canceled. We will not speak at the New School while student protesters are being arrested. We will announce an alternative date and location in due course.
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Marxism and the Capitalist State: Authors' Roundtable | Friday, May 3rd | w/BISR faculty @rafkhach and @alybatt , alongside @selfactingmule @kmunro_econ @chrisokane_nyc and Jasmine Chorley-Schulz |
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Angela Davis's paper for Adorno's Seminar on Negative Dialect
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Adorno on household production as the 'germ-cell' of society:
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Chris O'Kane
10 months
What classic work of Marxist Theory came out when you were 15 and what were you reading instead?
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Chris O'Kane
2 years
This is coming out in a month Please let me know if you would be interested in reviewing it or if you would like to join the Critical Theory and Critique of Society street team.
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Chris O'Kane
8 months
What are good articles or books on socialist approaches to the environment beyond the big name ecomarx dudes (Bellamy Foster, Moore, Malm, Saito, Huber)?
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Chris O'Kane
3 years
I think I just figured out what my phd thesis was about, 8 1/2 years after I handed it in.
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Chris O'Kane
2 years
Very sorry to hear about Simon Clarke passing. His work has been extraordinarily important to me. I almost told him this when I saw him at the last HM conference I attended but I was too shy and figured there would be another occasion that was less awkward. Sadly there wasn't.
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Chris O'Kane
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Third faculty member in New York state who has had their academic freedom violated and faced disciplinary measures from their employer for doing this
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Jodi Dean
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McCarthyism is real. I’ve been relieved of teaching responsibilities. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
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Exciting mail day!
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9 months
Here is Adorno's take on the revolutionary subject that will avert climate change
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2 years
Couldn’t help but think of this Staughton Lynd anecdote on the anniversary of Joe Hill’s execution
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Chris O'Kane
8 months
Excited to announce that Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy can now be preordered in paperback for the more reasonable price of $35.95
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Chris O'Kane
1 year
Someone should write a book about Anglophone Marxist debates of the 70s. Because I don't think many people realize they are the jumping-off points for the debates of today and at the same time there is a lot of great stuff from that era that's overlooked
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Chris O'Kane
3 years
I unexpectedly have 2 new chapters out today: "Totality" in Beverly Skeggs, Sara R Farris et al (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Marxism "Law and the State in Frankfurt School Critical Theory" in Paul O'Connell and Umut Ozsu (ed) Research Handbook on Law and Marxism.
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Chris O'Kane
9 months
Can you even imagine wrapping up a lecture like this:
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3 years
I have an article in the new issue of Critical Historical Studies:
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2 years
The hardcover of Adorno and Marx is now out! . Please request that your research libraries order it!
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3 years
Sent the final proofs off for this today
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Chris O'Kane
4 years
My new introduction to the reprint of Sohn Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labor is now online
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Chris O'Kane
4 months
This is outrageous
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Natasha Barnes
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@MiddleEastEye Here’s @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor” #Gaza #Protesters
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Chris O'Kane
9 months
Do you want to spend the holiday season hearing me and a few of my fellow contributors take part in an online panel on the new edited collection on Marxism and the Capitalist State? Well, you are in luck!
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11 months
I'm going in
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9 months
Much respect to Adorno for starting of his Introduction to Sociology course with a detailed overview of how bad career prospects are for sociology majors.
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Chris O'Kane
4 months
An important new contribution to the development of the critique of political economy as a critical social theory:
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Chris O'Kane
1 year
Mark my words: Making it legal to fire tenured professors for "moral turpitude" in a state where its most powerful politicians decry the "woke left", "critical race theory" and "cultural marxism" in just these terms is setting up a very ominous legal precedent.
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Chris O'Kane
4 years
Proofs for my article in the forthcoming April issue of Science & Society have arrived!
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Chris O'Kane
8 months
Honored to have a chapter in this fantastic collection on Marx's critical theory of domination
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Riccardo Bellofiore
8 months
Courtesy of the co-editor Tommaso Redolfi Riva*, the cover, the backcover, and the table of contents of Marx’s Key Concepts, @Elgar_Economics *the one who actually made this book possible.
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Chris O'Kane
2 years
The ebook version of this is now out: Spread the word! Please let me know if you would like to review it Please ask your libraries to order it if you can Do let me know if you would like a copy of any of my contributions
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Chris O'Kane
6 months
Tired of the ecomodernism/degrowth debate? why not read about the critical theory of nature?
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Chris O'Kane
11 months
I've spent 20 years studying orientalism, powerlessness, and social catastrophe, and the unspeakable horror that is going on right now is fucking me up. Can't think of a time I felt more hopeless or powerless.
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Chris O'Kane
8 months
Polycrisis has been sublated into one single catastrophe
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Guardian Environment
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Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe
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Chris O'Kane
10 months
This all too timely book is now available. Get your libraries to order it now:
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Chris O'Kane
5 months
Honored, excited, and a little nervous to be workshopping material from my current book project. Do pop along -- in person or via zoom -- if you are willing and able.
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GC PoliSci Program
5 months
Join the Political Theory Workshop @GC_PoliSci this Friday for @chrisokane_nyc presentation of a chapter of his upcoming book on "The Critique of Political Economy as Critical Theory of Social Domination"
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Chris O'Kane
3 years
New critical theory journal just dropped:
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Chris O'Kane
9 months
This is great
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Chris O'Kane
4 months
Postone enters the growth/ degrowth chat:
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Chris O'Kane
6 months
Who will write the magisterial review essay on Mau's Mute Compulsion, Bonefeld's A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion, and Best's The Automatic Fetish?
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Chris O'Kane
11 months
New Bev Best article just dropped: "I offer a ... way of reading Marx’s theory of value, as a theory that illuminates how capital comes to mediate gendered and racialized subjugation, sustaining it through its dissimulation."
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Chris O'Kane
10 months
One of these days I will write an article on Adorno's prescient critique of academia:
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Chris O'Kane
1 year
Almost sounds like capitalists are 'personifications of economic categories' and treat each other as 'hostile brothers', now if there was only a thinker who had explained this.
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Kristian Niemietz
1 year
Marxism is essentially also just a high-status conspiracy theory. Business people are, in my experience, almost comically apolitical. They only care about their own business. The idea that they all work together, as a class, to prop up capitalism, is... not plausible.
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Chris O'Kane
4 years
I am an editor of the Critical Theory and Critique of Society book series with Bloomsbury Academic Press. Find out more about the book series here: Get in touch if you are interested in publishing with the series.
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10 months
New book contract signed.
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Chris O'Kane
11 months
One of the many interesting things I learned in this book is that Said considered himself twins with Gillian Rose.
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11 months
Currently reading this:
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Chris O'Kane
7 months
Sad to see Oskar Negt's passing. he is sadly overlooked in the English-speaking world. Only some of his work with Kluge has been translated and very little of his own work. For those who are interested in an overview, I suggest the work of Richard Langston.
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Chris O'Kane
4 years
The most important advice I have for reading Volume 1 is to skip Mandel's introduction.
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Chris O'Kane
10 months
I once again cannot believe this is the response to people who want a ceasefire.
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#StopCopCity
10 months
It’s bananas at the DNC with police attacking protesters. More later #CeasefireNowInGaza #FreePalestine
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I was hired to help turn my institution into an R1. Yesterday I presented my research at a University in Berlin and it was cited by an academic in Australia. But the topics I work on are on the verge of being outlawed here and elsewhere.
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1 year
I, too, had a good mail day:
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Re-reading Adorno's lectures on Philosophy and Sociology.
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Chris O'Kane
3 years
guilty as charged....
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pablo
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reading the beginning of every article / book / review published on Marx or Marxism in the past 13 years
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Chris O'Kane
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Here are two books on neoliberalism in the tradition of the frankfurt school:
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
9 months
Really interesting comments from Samuel Moyn regarding Frankfurt School critical theorists not having an adequate response to neoliberalism:
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Chris O'Kane
3 years
Pleased to announce my article "Critical Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: An Immanent Critique of Nancy Fraser's “Systematic” “Crisis-Critique” of Capitalism as an “Institutionalized Social Order" is now up on the @SciSocJournal website:
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So interesting to go back to Backhaus's Dialectics of the Value Form after seeing the endless debates on here about value-form theory.
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Chris O'Kane
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Why would it be useful to read a collection of articles on 'post-fordism and social form' when the debates are now about whether we are in neo-feudalism or post-neoliberalism?
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Chris O'Kane
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Here is the video of yesterday's panel. Instead of a discussion of the Handbook, we presented three papers on Critical Theory. Werner focuses on the question what is social reality?, Amy on anti-social reproduction, I talk about permanent catastrophe.
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Chris O'Kane
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I know I come from a 4 generation Quaker family, but I just can't wrap my head around opposition to a ceasefire, let alone firing people for supporting one.
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4 years
A thread on what I consider new and important work on Dialectic of Enlightenment that goes against its predominant reception as a one-dimensional transhistorical theory of instrumental reason that broke with Marx.
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We need a critical theory of society...
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He's getting so close
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Will Stancil
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If the crises are omnipresent then you're just describing "human societies" and not crises.
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Chris O'Kane
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Much of my academic training is also in intellectual history, and let me tell you, this is not it!
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Yascha Mounk
1 year
Much of my academic training is in intellectual history. So to understand the ideas about group identity that have become powerful so quickly, I did a TON of reading. Here's the true story of the origins of "woke"—and how it explains many themes of today's left. A loooong 🧵.
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Taps the sign:
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Spectre publishes another important contribution to value-form analysis, Sam Fisher's appreciative and critical engagement with Mute Compulsion.
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Chris O'Kane
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pasting this into my powerpoint slide at the beginning of every lecture
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Chris O'Kane
1 year
Said was actually how I got into Adorno. I wrote my MA thesis on Said's idea of humanism. I got into Said and Saidian humanism because of the War on Terror.
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Amar Mustafa | امار مصطفى 🪁
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20 years since we lost the great Edward Said. A brilliant scholar who played a critical part in bringing the invisible Arab voice to the forefront. 📽: Edward Said discussing the ideas of Frantz Fanon with Eqbal Ahmad in 'The Idea of Empire'.
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Chris O'Kane
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Adorno --> Krahl --> Negri --> Open Marxism just one of the secret histories of the further development of Critical Theory.
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abolition des abolitions
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"Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train – namely, the human race – to pull the emergency brake."
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If I were going to make a contribution to the is it fascism debate? this is the angle I would use.
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Chris O'Kane
2 years
Well Braunstein's Adorno's Critique of Political Economy should hopefully do away with the idea that Adorno got his idea of real abstraction from Sohn Rethel
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Chris O'Kane
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This Fraser thing is insane. Solidarity with all the scholars in Germany who signed other open letters and whose livelihoods now seem to be in danger.
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Chris O'Kane
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Does he think he has to beat Trump for the Republican nomination?
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austerity is theft 🇿🇦
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Biden offering a deal on immigration so far-right Republicans see it as a ‘historic opportunity’ they wouldn’t get under Trump: “If Trump’s president, Democrats will be expecting a pathway to citizenship for that.”
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Chris O'Kane
9 months
People are working on critical theory + political economy, and critical theory and the critique of political economy, but I think that we are just not accepted as "Frankfurt School Critical Theory" for several reasons I get into in the book I am writing on this topic.
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Samuel Moyn 🔭
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Yes--I have a piece coming out in @JConstellations saying the same. "Unfortunately, critical theory today is now chiefly the purview of cultural and literary theorists, historians of ideas, philosophers, and political and social theorists."
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Chris O'Kane
4 years
In other news, I think I just realized what my thesis was about. (I finished it in 2013).
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Chris O'Kane
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Re-reading Schmidt's Concept of Nature in Marx. I realize Bellamy Foster and Smith dump on him but it seems like a lot of what he focuses on is missed in the narrower conceptions of nature in Marxist thought these days?
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Chris O'Kane
4 years
Paul Mattick Jr. makes some good points in his ruthless critique of Marxian economics in Theory as Critique:
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Chris O'Kane
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Best, Automatic Fetish Book Launch
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Chris O'Kane
3 years
Proofing an article I initially submitted in 2016. It then went through two substantive revisions in response to excellent feedback and was accepted last March. its been a long ride but it did help me develop my ideas, so I am excited and nervous about its publication:
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Chris O'Kane
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Please ask your library to pre-order this all too timely book:
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Chris O'Kane
9 months
The irony is that Adorno's reception does exactly this
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Chris O'Kane
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What does Value-Form Theory mean these days? is it like the idea that capital is subject entirely detached from class antagonism and associated with the work of Heinrich?
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