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Three provisional theses on Marx’s concept of value


“Could commodities themselves speak, they would say: Our use-value may be a thing that interests men. It’s no […]

Pothik Ghosh August 28, 2016 Uncategorized, Value Theory

IoK AND THE ‘PRO-AZADI’ INDIAN LEFT: CHARITY IS NOT SOLIDARITY


There is something Indian mainlanders outraged by the unspeakable brutalities inflicted on Kashmir by the Indian occupation need […]

Pothik Ghosh July 17, 2016 Indian occupation, Uncategorized

BREXIT: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR WORKING-CLASS POLITICS IN GENERAL


Certain individuals from liberalism-addled sections of the Indian ‘radical’ left – particularly those intent on championing the bankrupt […]

Pothik Ghosh June 29, 2016 Brexit, Uncategorized

A QUICK NOTE ON THE POST-PHENOMENOLOGY OF MARX AND HOW TOTALITY IS A PHANTOM THAT IS REAL


Hegel’s phenomenological story — i.e. phenomena as constitutive moments of the unfolding of the dialectic of essence and […]

Pothik Ghosh April 26, 2016 Marxism, phenomenology, Uncategorized

Affirming poverty, or, how to radically break with fascistic underconsumptionism


“To deny poverty is to deny the absence of the Kingdom in the present system. It is to […]

Pothik Ghosh September 30, 2015 fascism, Liberation theology, political economy, Politics

Some rough-and-ready critical observations on the ‘redoing’ of the subalternist approach by Derridean-Marxists


In a recent polemic directed at one of the doyens (Partha Chatterjee) of the Subaltern Studies project, I […]

Pothik Ghosh September 18, 2015 critical theory, political economy, Politics

Some provisional notes on the materialism of thought, and modernism as “an aesthetics of necessary failure”


The fundamental question, insofar as modernism is concerned, is what does modernism make its diverse forms say about […]

Pothik Ghosh September 5, 2015 Adorno, materialism, modernism, philosophy, politics of literature

A rambling note on the need for a ‘religious’ left


The question of religion cannot be adequately posed and articulated outside the frame of politics as the actuality […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 left, Liberation theology, Politics, religion

Alexander Kluge and the dialectic of Galilean heresy


“It is said that the true reason why Galileo Galilei was summoned before the Holy Inquisition, and had […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 literary thinking, Theory

Kafka as a saint of revolutionary pessimism


“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 Kafka, literature, Politics, theology

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