From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 17:50:36 EST
Dear Rakesh - FYI the book: Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism should be out sometime in 2003 from SUNY, if all goes well. I think that your comments to John Holloway are quite in line with my own thoughts on this subject matter. I actually do not recommend replacing the noun structure with the verbal, but, in a rather more dialectical vein, point to the concomitance of the notions -- we are what we do. There is an abstraction and artificiality in the noun-verb dichotomy itself. If the universe is processive, then the activity of self-constitution destroys that dualism. And I certainly agree that process best characterizes what Marx was getting at with what people call the "historical/dialectical materialism". [John Bellamy] Foster is good on this...points to Marx's references to the "metabolism with nature". Interesting that you should refer to Postone - I did a commentary at the RPA on his book when it came out. My next book is going to be on time and class consciousness...Postone's treadmill analysis will probably feature prominently. Thanks for being in touch. Let me know any further thoughts or if I can be of further assistance. Best Wishes - Anne Pomeroy >
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