From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 12:18:36 EDT
No, Jerry, I think Marx believed in ghosts, and especially vampires. Definitely these are NOT metaphors. It is what is materially going on in this very special social reality. At 12:06 -0400 4-10-2005, Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM wrote: >I thought that Riccardo's reference yesterday to ghosts, possession and >vampires >in Marx should have made it clear that these were all metaphors. After all, >Marx -- the materialist -- was hardly a believer in ghosts, etc. Or was he? >Saul Newman seems to think so (see following from the mpslist). > >In solidarity, Jerry > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andrew Chitty" <a.e.chitty@sussex.ac.uk> >Subject: Saul Newman on 'Spectres of the Uncanny', Chichester, Friday 9 >December > > > >Dr Saul Newman (Researcher at the University of Western Australia) will >be presenting a paper 'Spectres of the Uncanny / Or Why Stirner and >Marx were afraid of Ghosts' at University College Chichester on Friday >9th December 2005 (5-7pm College House 4). > >This presentation is an open seminar and all are welcome. > >Dr Newman is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism >and the Dislocation of Power (Lexington Books, 2001) and New Theories >of the Political: Power and Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Thought >(Routledge, 2005). He is one of the central theorists >of 'postanarchism', which combines poststructuralist theory with >anarchist critique. His work has been at the centre of critical debate >in the anarchist milieu. An interview in which he discusses his work >can be found at http://www.livejournal.com/community/siyahi/2019.html. > >For further details contact Dr. Benjamin Noys [b.noys@ucc.ac.uk]. > >If you could distribute this e-mail I'd be grateful. >Thanks >Dr Benjamin Noys >Lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies >UCC -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Università di Bergamo Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/pers/?riccardo.bellofiore
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