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Why rights-centric politics is not a politics of freedom


Exchange-value (and exchange-relations) is not in and by itself value (and value-relations). Rather, exchange-value (and exchange-relations) is appearance […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 political economy, Politics, rights dicourse

Against the ‘enchantment’ of poetry and for the ‘arrogance’ of critical thinking


Robert Walser’s stress on the small, the insignificant, the minor, the almost-invisible is constitutive of his aporectic – […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 Aesthetics, Poetry, Politics

Phenomenologies of Suffering, Phenomenologies of Joyousness: Beyond the Moral Voluntarism of Anti-Capitalism


Theoretical practices on the working-class left today must be completely immersed in the spirit of chapter one of […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 political economy, Politics

Prayer as Revolution, Revolution as Prayer


Prayer, thought in its extreme, is dystopian irony. That is because it’s a radically pessimistic act, and thus […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 Liberation theology, literary thinking, Politics

Some random and provisional thoughts on Marxian conceptions of production


Production as in capitalist production is, pace Marx, always immaterial. That value, as the realisation of production, is, […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 philosophy, Pierre Macherey, political economy, Politics, Spinoza

Criticise with weapons even as you wield the weapon of criticism, but don’t mix the two up


That our wielding of the weapon of criticism does not exhaust and preclude the task of criticising with […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 Politics, revolutionary ethics, Theory

Why a Marx-Inspired Materialist Historiography cannot Afford to be Historicist and yet it often is


A historically determinist (or hitoricist) historiography takes root when the line shifts from construing the discursive inscription of […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 Historical materialism, historiography, philosophy of history, Politics

Some Random Observations on Robert Walser’s Prose Fiction


‘A Schoolboy’s Diary And Other Stories’ is the fourth Robert Walser book I’ve read so far. And what […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 Literary Criticism, Politics

Between Left-Hegelian Anthropology and Marx’s Materialist Dialectic: Some Random Observations on C.L.R. James


The transfer of philosophical categories to political practice in an immediate kind of way is one of C.L.R. […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 philosophy, Politics, Theory

Some Scattered and Sketchy Critical Remarks on the Theoretical Assumptions of Subaltern Studies Historiography


If one is allowed to indulge in some bit of abstraction one could say — pace Marx’s value-theoretic […]

Pothik Ghosh August 13, 2015 historiography, History, philosophy of history, Politics

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