Kojin Karatani’s theorising on modes of exchange and the ring of Capital-Nation-State

A short overview of Kojin Karatani’s Marxist influenced focus on modes of exchange as revealing the Borromean ring of Capital-Nation-State, and the import of this ring for religion. By Martin Shuster Kojin Karatani is one of the most interesting Marxist theorists of the last century. I put his work, as a form of “non-traditional” Marxism, in the… Read More Kojin Karatani’s theorising on modes of exchange and the ring of Capital-Nation-State

31st January 2024 Dilip

The Nightingale of Peshawar

Her first audience was the sheep and horses she herded in rural Pakistan, but she became a national hero. So why is this folk music icon reduced to living in a makeshift house? Aina J. Khan In a bootleg video from the 1990s, an entire audience of Pakistani men in shalwar kameezes stare transfixed as… Read More The Nightingale of Peshawar

30th January 2024 Dilip

Chris Hedges: The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse

Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East GAZA casualties live statistics Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett… Read More Chris Hedges: The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse

29th January 202429th January 2024 Dilip

Netanyahu Dealt Israel a Terrible Blow

GAZA casualties live statistics At least 165 Palestinians were killed and 290 injured over the past 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday. That brings the total number killed in the Israeli onslaught on Gaza to 26,422 since 7 October, not including the thousands thought to be buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings.… Read More Netanyahu Dealt Israel a Terrible Blow

29th January 202429th January 2024 Dilip

The Fractured Trajectory of Scientiﬁc Management and the Rationalization of Labor

By Judi Auderset (Referenced in Adam Tooze, Chartbook, June 12, 2023) Abstract: Scientific management and work rationalization are usually associated with the rise of industrial capitalism and factory labor. This narrow perspective, however, obscures the rural and agricultural spaces in which practices of labor management and work rationalization were important throughout the 19th and 20th… Read More The Fractured Trajectory of Scientiﬁc Management and the Rationalization of Labor

29th January 2024 Dilip

The New Associationist Movement

NAM will not destroy capitalism; it will only try to make it die quietly Harry Harootunian If the news from Japan during the last decade has concentrated on the depressing symptoms of decline of what once had been hailed as a miracle model of capitalist development, the announcement last year of the establishment of the… Read More The New Associationist Movement

28th January 202429th January 2024 Dilip

Gaza and genocide

The order of the International Court of Justice is a root-and-branch rejection of the Western consensus that Israel has no case to answer for the devastation it has caused in the Gaza Strip There is a hallucinogenic logic to the US cutting off funds to a relief agency because some of its employees allegedly participated… Read More Gaza and genocide

28th January 202428th January 2024 Dilip

Kojin Karatani Wins Berggruen Prize (2022)

By Dan Bilefsky The Japanese philosopher was the recipient of the $1 Million award for 2022, which is given to thinkers whose ideas have “provided wisdom and self-understanding in a rapidly changing world.”.. Mr. Karatani had promoted a modern form of “reciprocity” he had observed in ancient Ionian culture and that he had sought to apply… Read More Kojin Karatani Wins Berggruen Prize (2022)