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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 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

Spinoza as a precursor of the materialist dialectic


PROPOSITION XXVI. The human mind perceives no external body as actually existing unless through the ideas of the […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 materialist dialectic, philosophy, Spinoza

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

Political militancy and the question of literature


I am no literary scholar. I have neither the qualification nor the inclination to be one. Therefore, I […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 Aesthetics, politics of literature

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

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
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