Speculation As A Mode Of Production

Author : Marina Vishmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004291377

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Speculation as a Mode of Production by Marina Vishmidt Pdf

In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of Adorno's negative dialectic, her work pursues speculation through its contested terrains of philosophy, finance, and art, to arrive at the most detailed analysis that we now possess of the role of speculation in the shaping of subjectivity by value relations. Featuring detailed critical discussions of recent tendencies in the artistic representation of labour, and a brilliant reconstruction of the philosophical concept of the speculative from its origins in German Romanticism, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorisation of capital's drive to self-expansion, and an urgent corrective to the narrow and one-sided periodisations to which it is most commonly subjected.

Author : Marina Vishmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004384774

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Speculation as a Mode of Production by Marina Vishmidt Pdf

Examining the role of speculation in philosophy, art and finance, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorization of capital’s drive to self-expansion, and an urgent corrective to the narrow and one-sided periodisations to which it is most commonly subjected.

Author : Uno Kōzō
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004249578

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Theory of Crisis by Uno Kōzō Pdf

Based on Marx’s Capital, Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis provides a rigorous exposition of the necessity of crisis of the capitalist mode of production from the perspectives of “excess capital alongside surplus populations”.

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781617508301

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Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord Pdf

The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Author : John F. Haldon
Publisher : Verso
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0860916618

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The State and the Tributary Mode of Production by John F. Haldon Pdf

In this groundbreaking critique of both traditional and Marxist notions of feudalism and of the pre-capitalist state, John Haldon considers the configuration of state and social relations in medieval Europe and Mughal India as well as in Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire. He argues that a Marxist reading of the pre-capitalist state can take account of the autonomy of power relations and avoid economic reductionism while still focusing on the forms of tribute which sustained the ruling power. Haldon explores the conflicts to which these gave rise and shows the Ottoman state elite, often held to be a clear example of independence from underlying social relations, to be deeply enmeshed in economic relationships and the extraction of tribute. Haldon argues that feudalism was the specifically European form of a much more widely diffused tributary mode, whose characteristic social relations and structural constraints can be seen at work in the Byzantine, Ottoman and Mughal empires as well. While acknowledging the range of ideological and cultural variation within and between these examples of the tributary mode, Haldon denies the thesis that such “superstructural” variations themselves yielded fundamentally contrasting social relations.

Author : William H. Janeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107031258

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Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy by William H. Janeway Pdf

A unique insight into the interaction between the state, financiers and entrepreneurs in the modern innovation economy.

Author : Laurent Baronian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135043766

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Marx and Living Labour by Laurent Baronian Pdf

From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour only under the form of its product, and the exchange of products as commodities as the unique form of social labour exchange. For Marx, insofar as the labour creating value represents a specific mode of exchanging the society's living labour, general and abstract labour cannot not only be defined as the substance or measure unit of the commodity, as in Smith or Ricardo, but foremost as an expense of living labour, i.e. of nerves, muscles, brain, etc. Hence the twofold nature of living labour, as a concrete activity producing a use value and an expense of human labour in general producing exchange value. Marx himself claimed that this twofold nature of labour creating value was its main and most important contribution to economic science. This book aims at showing how both determines the original categories and economic laws in Capital and constitutes the profound innerspring of Marx's critique of political economy. The role and function of living labour is highlighted by dealing with the difference between Marx and Classics' theories of labour value; money and the problems of its integration in economic analysis, especially in Keynes; the transition from feudalism to capitalism; the theory of capital through a discussion on the Cambridge controversy and the transformation problem; the labour process and the principles of labour management; unemployment and overpopulation; the formulas of capital in the history of economic thought; finally, an interpretation of the current crisis based on Marx's conception of overaccumulation and speculation after having distinguished it from underconsumption and stagnation theories of crises.

Author : Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452961590

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Theory for the World to Come by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Pdf

Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Author : Henry Crosby Emery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Commodity exchanges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010714327

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Speculation on the Stock and Produce Exchanges of the United States by Henry Crosby Emery Pdf

Author : Dave Beech
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004288157

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Art and Value by Dave Beech Pdf

Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's economics. Key debates in classical, neoclassical and Marxist theories of art are subjected to an exacting critique. The book concludes with a new Marxist theory of art's economic exceptionalism.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822310902

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Samya Beidas-Strom,Mr.Andrea Pescatori
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498333481

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Oil Price Volatility and the Role of Speculation by Samya Beidas-Strom,Mr.Andrea Pescatori Pdf

How much does speculation contribute to oil price volatility? We revisit this contentious question by estimating a sign-restricted structural vector autoregression (SVAR). First, using a simple storage model, we show that revisions to expectations regarding oil market fundamentals and the effect of mispricing in oil derivative markets can be observationally equivalent in a SVAR model of the world oil market à la Kilian and Murphy (2013), since both imply a positive co-movement of oil prices and inventories. Second, we impose additional restrictions on the set of admissible models embodying the assumption that the impact from noise trading shocks in oil derivative markets is temporary. Our additional restrictions effectively put a bound on the contribution of speculation to short-term oil price volatility (lying between 3 and 22 percent). This estimated short-run impact is smaller than that of flow demand shocks but possibly larger than that of flow supply shocks.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199360260

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey Pdf

"David Harvey examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. While the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe"--

Author : Samo Tomsic
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784781101

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The Capitalist Unconscious by Samo Tomsic Pdf

A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s work Finalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology—as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Žižek—there remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacan’s work. A major, comprehensive study of the connection between their work, The Capitalist Unconscious resituates Marx in the broader context of Lacan’s teaching and insists on the capacity of psychoanalysis to reaffirm dialectical and materialist thought. Lacan’s unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian ‘labour theory of the unconscious’. Tracing these developments, Tomšič maintains that psychoanalysis, structuralism and the critique of political economy participate in the same movement of thought; his book shows how to follow this movement through to some of its most important conclusions.

Author : Michel Feher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781942130192

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Rated Agency by Michel Feher Pdf

The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees — to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy — has become a new site of social struggle. In clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization. Above all, he articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.