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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

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

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 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

Some critical observations on the Kantianism of Levi-Strauss’s dialectic and how a ‘formalised in-humanism’ could be extracted from it


“The savage mind totalizes. It claims indeed to go very much further in this direction than Sartre allows […]

Pothik Ghosh September 1, 2015 anthropology, Calude Levi-Strauss, Kant, philosophy

An observation on why Spinoza’s conception of the ethical is materialist


“We see that this natural Divine law does not demand the performance of ceremonies—that is, actions in themselves […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 ideology, Kant, Marx, materialism, philosophy, Spinoza

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

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

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