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On The Old Divide-and-Conquer: Some Marxist Tools For The Analysis of White Racism In The Trump Age
Posted on November 18, 2016 Leave a Comment
[Below I provide a work-in-progress: Part One of a 3-part essay on Marxist tools for the reverse engineering of the new forms of white racism unleashed in our current crisis. Here, I offer some introductory remarks, and set up the intra-left antagonism that motivates the writing of the essay in the first place. In Part […]
On White Racism and the Trump Vote: A Marxist Perspective
Posted on November 12, 2016 1 Comment
Donald Trump has been elected. If anything seems obvious, now––and very little does––it is that the limp satire beloved by the American bourgeoisie has proven worse than useless. It failed to anticipate the coming storm, and fed the self-satisfaction that plagued the Clinton campaign from start to finish. There was, however, at least one comic […]
Back to Work
Posted on November 12, 2016 Leave a Comment
This site has been dormant for some time. It is now incumbent upon us to think, write, and study. And, so armed, to act. Thus, we will try to keep the analyses flowing here, with apologies issued in advance for the mistakes that no doubt will be made and the corrections that will no doubt […]
Robert Underwood Johnson, 1908
Posted on March 12, 2015 Leave a Comment
Robert Underwood Johnson: I am not here to speak for the publishers, but for the American Copyright League… The second point is the copyright by a corporation. There is no provision in this bill for a copyright by a corporation. Half the copyrights of the country are held in that way, by corporations or […]
Charles Peirce 5.284-293
Posted on November 30, 2014 Leave a Comment
(1) When we think, to what thought does that thought-sign which is ourself address itself? It may, through the medium of outward expression, which it reaches perhaps only after considerable internal development, come to address itself to thought of another person. But whether this happens or not, it is always interpreted by a subsequent thought of our own. If, […]
Pragmatism and IP Law History, Conjugated
Posted on November 25, 2014 Leave a Comment
To trace the overlapping narratives of IP history and pragmatism, we begin with the work of legal scholars Oren Bracha and Catherine Fisk. From Bracha and Fisk, we will turn to conventional accounts of the intellectual history of pragmatism––filling in some biographical details of major figures, and briefly pointing out some limitations in the interpretations […]
Pragmatism and the Cultural Worker: The 19th Century
Posted on November 23, 2014 Leave a Comment
For the purposes of this project, three dimensions of nineteenth-century pragmatism are particularly relevant. The first dimension, most fully developed in the work of William James, treats life as experimentation, with all certainties accepted, provisionally, “on credit,” and subject to change. As Isabelle Stengers argues, James replaced the skeptic’s emphasis on “habit” with a new focus upon […]
“The Taste of Any Public Is Not To Be Treated With Contempt” Part One
Posted on November 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
“NOT ELEEMOSYNARY” The word “eleemosynary” is seldom encountered in modern English. It derives from Medieval Latin, and means: “Of or pertaining to alms or almsgiving,” or “Of the nature of alms; given or done as an act of charity; gratuitous.” Interestingly, the Oxford English Dictionary highlights as significant the appearance of “eleemosynary” in Charlotte Brontë’s […]
Adam Smith: Productive and Unproductive Labor and the Cultural Worker, Part One
Posted on November 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
ADAM SMITH: “PRODUCTIVE” AND “UNPRODUCTIVE” LABOR AND THE CULTURAL WORKER Over the past several decades, many left intellectuals have treated the appearance of forms of work that deviate from the paradigm of the Fordist factory routine as prima facie evidence of a mutation of the capitalist mode of production. As George Caffentzis notes, this has […]
From The New and complete American encyclopedia: or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences; on an improved plan: in which the respective sciences are arranged into complete systems, and the arts digested into distinct treatises; also the detached parts of knowledge alphabetically arranged and copiously explained, according to the best authorities (New York: 1807)
Posted on January 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
FROTHILY, adv. 1. With foam; with spume.—2. In an empty trifling manner. FROTHINES, n. s. the Hate of being frothy; lightness; want of solidity. FROTH SPIT, or Cuckow-spit, a name given to a white froth, or spume, very common in spring and the first months of summer, on the leaves of certain plants, particularly on those of the common white field lychnis, or catchfly, thence […]
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