Thai academic who interested in #transgenerationality, focus on #criticalsocialtheory and #historicalsocialscience.

Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Joined July 2014
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Shortly after Adorno died of a heart attack on August 6, 1969, Herbert Marcuse gave the following interview on German radio in Frankfurt.
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Saying Capital contains no ethical or normative claims is much too strong. Marx doesn’t construct a systematic moral philosophy or derive socialism from abstract principles of justice. But that’s a very different claim.
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RP2.21 is out now! Rebecca Comay on The 18th Brumaire 🎭 Grégoire Chamayou on data centres 💻 Danny Hayward on Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance 🏛️ Werner Bonefeld on Adorno, plus a newly translated Adorno lecture with intro by Jake Orbison 📕 And more…
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Replying to @sean_obee
@sean_obee and I have edited a special issue of @web_clc called “Keywords for Value and Culture”. Across 34 essays, it explores the shared conceptual terrain between value-form theory and aesthetic theory. The full issue is available open access here: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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Actually, these are not Hegelian terms, but Aristotelian ones, although Marx uses several Hegelian terms. 1) Commodity (in its immediate form as a thing that satisfies a need) → thing (Ding) and its properties (Eigenschaften) 2) Value (as the common element) → universal 3) Use-value → matter (Materie) or “thinghood thereness” 4) Exchange-value (immediately) → ratio 5) Exchange-value (as value-form) → form or appearance (Erscheinung) 6) Commodity as the unity of use-value and value → concrete universal, contradictory or negative unity 7) Relative form of value → something 8) Equivalent form → other 9) Expanded form of value → bad infinity 10) Universal equivalent → being-for-itself 11) Substance of value (abstract labor) → substance 12) Capital (automatic subject) → subject or concept (Begriff) 13) Money-form → ser-aí of being-for-itself 14) Socially necessary labor time → measure 15) Capitalist circulation of commodities → quantitative bad infinite 16) Surplus-value and profit (as explained in Volume 3) → Essence (Wesen) and semblance (Schein) 17) Labor-power and labor → Force (Kraft) and externalization (Äusserung), but also act and potency. Etc. Hence, for example, value that valorizes itself, or capital, as the vampire that consumes living labor, is a reconstruction of the transition from substance (labor) to subject (concept) in Hegel. Moreover, in Capital, the Grundrisse, and The German Ideology, Marx uses the terms related to ser-aí and existence in the same way as Hegel. A) Existenz / Existence → being or facticity with a mediated relation, or the relation of an essence that realizes itself within a world of interdependencies. A1) Existenzbedingung – condition of existence A2) Existenzform – form of existence A3) Existenzweise – mode of existence A4) materiellen Existenzbedingungen – material conditions of existence A5) symbolische Existenz – symbolic existence Etc. B) Being (Sein) and Being-there (Dasein) → the factual or the immediately present B1) Daseinsweise – mode of being-there B2) gesellschaftliches Dasein – social being-there B3) funktionelles Dasein – functional being-there B4) materielles Dasein – material being-there B5) Metalldasein – metallic being-there Especially the pair that explains what economic categories are: categories are expressions of forms-of-being-there (Daseinsformen), that is, determinations-of-existence (Existenzbestimmungen), a critical reconstruction of the Hegelian notion of determinations-of-thought (Gedankenformen). And there's a lot more
Marx's commodity theory in terms of Hegelian taxonomy: Genus - commodity as such Species - commodity types individual - specific commodity Difference is here intercourse is between species!
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In an opportunistic exercise in building the personal brand, I have published the text of this talk in an effort to make my own humble contribution to the current Western Marxism Debate
Very excited to be presenting on Adorno, Aesthetic Experience, Phenomenology, and Organization on Thursday at @histmat London, and for all the other great panels and talks on the absolutely packed program. Hope to meet some of you there!
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It’s out and available open access on line: bielefelduniversitypress.de/…
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now in material form
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My abstract for the special session on Gillian Rose for the virtual ACLA conference, this Friday-Sunday –– on Hegel, reification, personification, and necessary illusion. Other speaks include Rocío Zambrana, @gruidae_james, Kate Schick, and Louis Klee acla.org/virtual-conference/…
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"The value-form is Marx’s most significant contribution to critical social theory." Read the introduction to Absolute Ethical Life: sup.org/books/politics/absol…
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My review of Kohei Saito is out, been working on this one for a while. I reflect on Saito's methodology, the development of degrowth Marxism, and what it all means for understanding Marx negationmag.com/articles/wil…
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My book is big--600 pages! Yet I had to cut lots of words. Which means plenty of interesting figures didn't make the cut (often b/c they didn't fit an analytical through line). One such person is notorious Episcopal bishop William Montgomery Brown, AKA "Bad Bishop Brown." Thread.
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Glad to see the proofs of Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy
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My book Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy is now available to pre-order cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
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Fredric Jameson, “History and Class Consciousness as an ‘Unfinished Project’,”Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-72. #FreeAccess tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) We are immensely saddened by the passing of the foremost Marxist theorist & critic of cultural production under capitalist totality. A member of our advisory board, he was a supporter of our efforts since the very beginning. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
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Bristol University Press has made this article free to read and download until September 30th - if anyone is interested!
New piece in @GPEjournal on money, state, and sovereignty. It's part of a larger interest of mine in putting Post-Keynesian and Marxist approaches (particularly Political and Open Marxist) into conversation with one another. doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y202…
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One of Adorno’s great achievements, which is perhaps not sufficiently appreciated, is the extent to which he took the practice of immanent critique in Hegel and Marx and brought it to wider theoretical consciousness. But immanent critique is not enough to ground Marxism. 1/
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Nagatani Kiyoshi, "The Value Form and the Fetishism of the Commodity" (Review of Radical Political Economics, September 2023) "A reformulated theory of the value form should integrate, not omit, the fetishism of the commodity within it" Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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