From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Sat Nov 06 2004 - 17:35:13 EST
At 7:02 PM -0500 11/5/04, Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM wrote: >The 1st issue (Volume 1, #1) of this online journal >is now out. > ><http://www.newschool.edu/gf/nser>http://www.newschool.edu/gf/nser > >There are articles by listmember Michael Heinrich, >former listmember Duncan Foley, Ben Fine, Stephen >Resnick & Richard Wolff, Robert Pollin and others. > >In solidarity, Jerry Duncan F's very interesting essay makes me wonder whether Foucauldian/Althusserian anti humanism should be understood as basically a critique of the economic agent as envisioned by marginalism (though Althusser seems to have incorrectly read that view of Man or the economic agent--homo economicus--back into classical economics). Or was a black box conception of agents as automata also implicit in the anti humanism of this quasi structuralist school (Godelier did explicitly invoke analogies to cybernetics)--hence its scientistic vogue which Ranciere and Badiou later critiqued (though perhaps in irrationalist fashion if Daniel Bensaid is correct) and Lipietz in the Enchanted World attempted to think against through a study of real freedom of action in the exoteric world? Of course here I am dropping the names of authors of those dense tomes of social theory to which Duncan wittily refers. Rakesh
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