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The Time of Capital and the Messianicity of Time: Marx with Benjamin

22/11/2010
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The Time of Capital and the Messianicity of Time:  Marx with Benjamin

Whereas for traditional Marxism history was driven by ‘objective’ historical forces towards its communist telos within history, critical Marxism attempted a blast of the very horizon of capitalisthistory itself. According to Slavoj Žižek (1989), in Marxian thought this ‘non-historical “ex-timate” kernel of history’ was only touched by Walter Benjamin’s last reflections On the Concept...


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Seven Short Temporary Statements on Anthropological Materialism

15/11/2010
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Seven Short Temporary Statements on Anthropological Materialism Anthropological materialism is a tradition, a polemical term, a sensibility, a temporality, an (internal) category and an actuality. 1. An uncommon and idiosyncratic tradition. Anthropological materialism originally designates afterwards a group of isolated French and German authors from the 19th Century and the 1930s who don’t always relate explicitly to any sort of materialism....
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