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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

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

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

Some random thoughts on the rationalism/irrationalism divide


If we historicise religion in terms of its pagan provenance we can clearly see religion as unreflexive atheism. […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 irrationalism, philosophy, Rationalism

Marx: An Epicurean in Hegelian disguise?


“…the principle of Epicurean philosophy is not the gastrology of Archestratus as Chrysippus believes, but the absoluteness and […]

Pothik Ghosh August 27, 2015 Marxism, philosophy

Nietzsche’s Hellenism: A case of heroic failure


Is it any longer historically possible to retrieve the non-moral ethics of Classical Hellenic antiquity? For, is the […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 ethics, Karl Loewith, Nietzsche, paganism, philosophy

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

Historical Materialism is “Historicity without History” but it is not, therefore, Genealogy


Historical materialism is historicity without history. And yet it is by no means genealogy. Of course, isnofar as […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 genealogy, Historical materialism
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