From: Michael Eldred (artefact@T-ONLINE.DE)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 17:18:17 EDT
Cologne 24-Sep-2003 Michael Williams schrieb Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:35:23 +0100: > Hello Michael, > > Why participate then? Research project investigating the question: What is it like to bMW? Seeing what former pupils are doing. How's the wife? _-_-_-_-_-_-_- artefact text and translation _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- made by art _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ _-_-_-_-artefact@t-online.de _-_ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Dr Michael Eldred -_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > > > michael > ------------------------------------ > Michael Williams > 26 Glenwood Avenue > Southampton > SO16 3QA > tel/fax: 02380768641 > michaelj.williams@tiscali.co.uk > mobile: 07906 172655 > http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mwilliams > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of > > Michael Eldred > > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:26 AM > > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > > Subject: Re: origins of industrial capitalism -- Middlemarch on PE > > > > > > Cologne 24-Sep-2003 > > > > Or, to put it another way: I find the cramped, narrow horizon > > of this list so depressing. Dorothea may help to brighten up > > the atmosphere here. Don't you think it needs a woman's touch > > to make the place come alive? > > > > Or: What is it like to bMW? > > > > Michael > > _-_-_-_-_-_-_- artefact text and translation _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- made by art > > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ > > _-_-_-_-artefact@t-online.de _-_ > > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Dr Michael Eldred > > -_-_- > > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Betreff: Re: origins of industrial capitalism -- Middlemarch on PE > > Datum: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:07:26 +0200 > > Von: Michael Eldred <artefact@T-ONLINE.DE> > > Rückantwort: OPE-L <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> > > Firma: http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ > > An: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > > Referenzen: > > > > Cologne 21-Sep-2003 > > > > Rakesh Bhandari schrieb Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:22:42 -0700: > > > > > >Cologne 20-Sep-2003 > > > > > > > >"She sat down in the library before her particular little heap of > > > >books on political economy and kindred matters, out of > > which she was > > > >trying to get light as to the best way > > > >of spending money so as not to injure one's neighbours, or -- what > > > >comes to the same > > > >thing -- so as to do the most good. Here was a weighty subject > > > >which, if she could but > > > >lay hold of it, would certainly keep her mind steady." (George > > > >Eliot, Middlemarch, > > > >Chapter Eighty-Three p.804) > > > > > > My interest is not as fleeting as Dorothea's; nor are my > > motivations > > > for this study in any way similar to hers. My wife the English > > > professor tells me that you have inappropriately used the > > passage. But > > > then as with your idea of the Cartesian limits of Marx, I > > again have > > > no idea as to what you are on about. Rakesh > > > > Rakesh, > > If taking a passage out of its context in a novel and putting > > it next to thoughts on the origins of industrial capitalism > > is inappropriate, then the use of the passage is > > inappropriate. I prefer to call it juxtaposition. The > > discrepancy can be productive, like an art work by Kurt Schwitters. > > > > Of course I don't want to suggest your interest in PE is > > fleeting. I sent the e-mail with the above header more as a > > note to myself. I like to have intriguing passages simply > > work on me. Sometimes thoughts come. > > > > By contrast, I spent quite a deal of effort in this forum > > trying to show why and how the Marxian approach to the > > phenomenon of value has to be freed from its Cartesian > > casting. That was not simply juxtaposition, but is flanked by > > many years of work. > > > > Whether laconic or prolix, it seems to make no difference. > > > > Michael >
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