http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/labour-anatomy/ Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:03:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/labour-anatomy/#comment-15 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:18:17 +0100 http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/labour-anatomy/#comment-15 Your first two concluding points are really excellent and I think in pretty strong difference with Negri. I'm not sure I understand the third, I think in part because I've never really liked or fully understood the mental vs manual labor distinction. To my mind, manual labor has a mental component (as in Erik's post below where Marx seems to define labor by its purposive quality). Even the most simple of labors involves a mind, though often one that gets bored, and the most intellectualized of labors also has a manual/bodily component. And, depending on what we mean by 'materialism', the mind and the body aren't really two things even if there's not yet a single satisfactory vocabulary for talking about them as one substance. take care, Nate Your first two concluding points are really excellent and I think in pretty strong difference with Negri. I’m not sure I understand the third, I think in part because I’ve never really liked or fully understood the mental vs manual labor distinction. To my mind, manual labor has a mental component (as in Erik’s post below where Marx seems to define labor by its purposive quality). Even the most simple of labors involves a mind, though often one that gets bored, and the most intellectualized of labors also has a manual/bodily component. And, depending on what we mean by ‘materialism’, the mind and the body aren’t really two things even if there’s not yet a single satisfactory vocabulary for talking about them as one substance.
take care,
Nate

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