The only part of Capital to be published in Marx’s lifetime was volume one. It first came into being in Hamburg in 1867. Throughout the book Marx confidently asserts that ‘more of this will appear in volume two’, ‘this argument will continue in volume three’ and so on. But those later volumes were not finalisedContinue reading “Visions of Marx….endlessly”
Category Archives: Capital
eye massage
Once a year I go to hospital to have my eyes photographed. There is a growth behind one of them and if it changes, then as I understand the procedure, my eye gets taken out of its socket, the growth removed and the eye put back in it’s proper place. It’s always good news toContinue reading “eye massage”
A Funeral
Strange dreams; dreams are always strange. In the English countryside, early November days, the medieval period comes alive once more. Here and there, cottages in the misty late afternoon. Low cut tress, copper hues, dried blood red, dark green tones as life fades from the summer leaves. Winter trees appear, dark shadows, the starkness ofContinue reading “A Funeral”
Canary Wharf: First Impressions
The Radical Walk, Canary Wharf & Marx’s Literary Style is on Thursday 16 May A short promotional film about Canary Wharf Impressions matter. This is a time of accelerated media production. An ever increasing number of image-objects, a relentless global expansion of capital, billions of packets of data each second moving almost at the speedContinue reading “Canary Wharf: First Impressions”
The last train to paradise
Waking up too early with the flickering remnants of a cinematic dream. A replication of an earlier version. Dreams become part of our memories and like all memories are deeply within our conscious and unconscious mind. I have experienced this particular dream many times before. It’s about loss. It always has the same ending. TheContinue reading “The last train to paradise”
Ask The Man Who Cuts the Golden Silk
The books are piling up as the time-sands of the working days trickle away through a giant hourglass. The pressure of the day job is easing. Only a day or two to go. I’ve been preparing for this over a couple of weeks now. Long evenings and weekends engrossed in volume one of Capital, LudovicoContinue reading “Ask The Man Who Cuts the Golden Silk”
The march to barbarism
No bombs have fallen yet on England. But the so-called political leadership of the Conservatives and Labour rush to take sides. An unwritten agreement as to who is right, and who is wrong, where death is always one sided, where only the children on one side of the conflict are ever killed. These are pre-crisesContinue reading “The march to barbarism”
Micro-Electronic Capital
A Bob Dylan song, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (demo version) came up while I was listening to music on shuffle mode. It was like a rip in the time-space continuum. It evokes a memory so painful it takes my breath away. It’s not so much to do with the lyrics or the musicContinue reading “Micro-Electronic Capital”
Marxism and A Pattern Language
The preparation for the Radical EC1 Walk continues with the usual diversions and tangents and books being brought together without obvious connections. I’ve been reading Communitas by Percival and Paul Goodman, a lot of Christopher Alexander and the first chapter of the Grundrisse. I suspect I understand about 10 percent of what Alexander and MarxContinue reading “Marxism and A Pattern Language”
The incidental dominance of exchange-value
A journey from reading the Grundrisse at 6am to a shopping centre and then EC1 at night. I spent a lot of time in a department store just watching the high definition televisions on display. It is as if the world is now a background which can be enhanced with film editing software, made brighter,Continue reading “The incidental dominance of exchange-value”
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