Karl Marx: An Illustrated Biography
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Karl Marx: An Illustrated Biography
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Werner Blumenberg
Reissued in the year of the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, this classic biography of Karl Marx is unlike any other account of its subject.
Focusing as much on Marx’s private life as on his public persona and work, it looks in detail at his relationships with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes generous quotations from a wide range of correspondence. Blumenberg examines Marx’s early writing as a schoolboy and his romantic poetry whilst a student, as well as his exchanges with close friend and collaborator Frederick Engels. In these pages are moving accounts of the privations of Marx’s poverty-stricken life in London and the tragedies which struck his family, as well as discussions of his intellectual development and political activity.
The book includes virtually every photograph in existence of Marx and his closest associates. A friend wrote of Marx when he was just twenty-four years old: ‘Imagine Rousseau,...Participatory Autonomy
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Participatory Autonomy
Rick Gribenas, ed.Table of Contents
Foreword: Sociocybernetics in Autonomy
Hannah HigginsPreface: A Call to Participate
Rick GribenasAutonomy, Participation, and
Claire PentecostFinding the right place for this moment: Maphub and our pursuit of an engaged presence.
Carl DiSalvo, Nathan Martin, Jeff MakiObjects for Failed or Failing Systems
Deborah StratmanCode Like Paint
Mark HereldGhost in the Machine
Jack FisherYour New Organ(ism)
Christa Donner
Thesis: Antythesis (Considering participation among the tiny)
Andy YangThe SamaraS Project
Dara GreenwaldPropagation
Sabrina RaafNotes on Contributors
The Margin Suites — CD
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Todd Mattei and Rick GribenasAfter the New Economy
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After the New Economy
Doug Henwood”Fast, funny, and consistently merciless toward the purveyors of economic delusion and deception. I feel ten times smarter than I was before I read this book!” – Barbara EhrenreichRarely a day went by in the dizzy 1990s without some well-paid pundit heralding the triumphant arrival of a “New Economy.” According to these financial mavens, an unprecedented technological and organizational revolution had extinguished the threat of recession forever. Though much of the rhetoric sounds ridiculous today, few analysts have explored how the New Economy moment emerged from deep within America’s economic and ideological machinery—instead, they’ve preferred to treat it as an episode of mass delusion.
Now, with customary irreverence and acuity, journalist Doug Henwood dissects the New Economy, arguing that the delirious optimism was actually a manic set of variations on ancient themes, all promoted from the highest of places. Claims of New Eras have plenty of historical precedents; in this latest act,...
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The Epitaph Project
1995–
Joyce Burstein
Introduction by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Joyce Burstein began the epitaph project in 1995 by securing a mortgage for a plot at Hollywood Forever, an historic cemetery in Los Angeles known for housing the remains of Rudolph Valentino and other silent film era stars.The public artwork exists as a tombstone carved from slate like a chalkboard and is accompanied by a bronze box containing chalk. Passersby are invited to write an epitaph on the stone. Burstein collects these sometimes profound or irreverent compositions with a photograph.
The project has expanded to include two multi-media presentations, a website, an installation, and the present book, of more than 300 selections, featuring an essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson.
This ongoing project enlists the help of all spectators in a process of self-discovery about death and life, as one does not exist without the other.
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A wonderful sampling of writings by 19th-century economist and social philosopher, Henry George.Contents:Chapter 1: An Introductory Essay on George’s PhilosophyChapter 2: Exhortative WorksChapter 3: A Clarification of the Single Tax and PropertyChapter 4: On Government, Politics, and the WorldChapter 5: Georgism versus SocialismChapter 6: On Sundry Important MattersChapter 7: Views on Religion and Personal CorrespondenceSome favorite quotes:”We start out with these two principles, which I think are clear and self-evident: that which a man makes belongs to him, and can by him be given or sold to anyone that he pleases. But that which existed before man came upon the earth, that which was not produced by man, but which was created by God — that belongs equally to all men” (p. 61).”Do we not all want more wealth? Why, then, should we tax and fine the production of wealth?” (p. 54).”Land is not wealth or capital, but is, on the contrary, that original factor of production from which labor produces wealth and capital”...
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Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework.Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.
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