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		<title>Logic and History in the Concept of  Subsumption</title>
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The new issue of the Swedish journal Riff-Raff contains a text by the so called Bj&ouml;rkhagengruppen in which they raise the question about the relation between logic and history in the distinction between formal and real subsumption. They do not exactly dwell on the topic, but suggest at least that this question relates to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/11/15/logic-and-history-in-the-concept-of-subsumption/</link>
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		<title>Jacques Bidet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Those who have read what Althusser says about Jacques Bidet in &quot;Philosophy and Marxism&quot; might be interested in the following announcement from the Historical Materialism Book Series:
	Exploring Marx&#8217;s Capital: Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions
	Jacques Bidet. Translated by David Fernbach. Preface to the English Edition by Alex Callinicos
	. January 2007. ISBN 90 04 14937 6. Hardback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/17/jacques-bidet/</link>
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		<title>On the &#8220;labour&#8221; in &#8220;immaterial labour&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This started out as a reply to Nate&rsquo;s comment on the post below, but it turned out rather long so I thought I&rsquo;d post it here.
	&#8212;&nbsp;
	I think Nate is absolutely right in his scepticism towards a definitive separation of mental and manual labour. This is one of the things I had in mind with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/15/on-the-labour-part-of-immaterial-labour/</link>
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		<title>Notes on &#8220;Value and Affect&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As anyone who has read some of his writings know, Antonio Negri has since the late 1970s been of the opinion that the marxian labour theory of value no longer is of any use in the analysis of present day capitalism. This, he says, is due to the changes taken place in the nature of capitalism in the second half of the 20th century (the process of subsumption of the labour process and life in general under capital). Undoubtedly some changes seem to have taken place in the labour process in the recent 30 years or so, and this seems so especially with regard to the mass employment of computers throughout society. But, even though it seems pretty clear that something has happened, the form that this historical change takes in Negri’s work is in my opinion not satisfactory.]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/labour-anatomy/</link>
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		<title>The Bird and the Spider</title>
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Dwelling on a quote I brought up in the previous post I hope one day to write something about the relation between the bird that figures there and the spider that figures in the chapter on the labour process in the first volume of Capital.
	Consider these passages:
	Milton produced Paradise Lost in the way that a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/09/09/the-bird-and-the-spider/</link>
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		<title>The Problematic Aura of Immaterial Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The recent fuss about guaranteed income &ndash; presented at the conference on immaterial labour in Cambridge as a possible new Keynesian deal &ndash; suggests, if nothing else, something of what is at stake in the discussion of the validity of the labour theory of value in its classical Marxian formulation. To what extent would capital, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/08/01/the-problematic-aura-of-immaterial-labour/</link>
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		<title>The troublesome task of a beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy is the problem of origins, the problem of beginning, and in particular the problem of the beginning of philosophy.]]></description>
		<link>http://poltergeist.blogsome.com/2006/06/14/the-troublesome-task-of-beginning/</link>
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