From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 15:27:26 EDT
The point remains that Neocleous emphasizes (and insists) that he has clarified the meaning of the vampire metaphor--that capital is undead as it appropriates the sensuous energy of living labor. Your vampire comment in 1996 is long way off from that. I am worried that Neocleous' idea entered OPE-L discussion without any acknowledgement. Whether you or someone else is responsible (and someone else may be responsible) is of no importance; what is of more importance is we insist upon proper acknowledgements in this forum. Especially when a thinker of importance is insisting that he has contributed this very idea. Which is more than an example or a throwaway comment but at the very heart of a major article and even a book. I hope you see my point. Rakesh > > >Who "appropriated" Neocleous's interpretation? >> Who referred to capital as undead? That would be >> the answer to your question. > >Rakesh, > >The answer to the question is that no one did anything improper >on the list re Neocleous -- except you. In your haste to post >his article, you did not take note of his stipulation that: > >"Electronic copies of this paper may not be posted on any >other website without express permission of the author." > >Your careless action has meant that I (and possibly Allin >and Hans) might have to clean up the mess you created >since when you posted his article it meant that it was >automatically archived on the 'ricardo' and 'utah' servers. >Please try to be more careful next time. Thank you. > >=================================== > >To repeat (and for the record), > >I never saw Neocleous's "Blood Capital and Dead Labour" >paper until you recently posted it on OPE-L. > >I was unaware of his _History of Political Thought_ article >until a few days ago and still haven't seen a copy. The >abstract, which is online and I read the other day, says very >little about the content of his paper. > >I only became aware of anything Neocleous wrote on this >subject on November 4 when I received a post from Andrew >Chitty sent to the mps list concerning MN's book >_The Monstrous and the Dead_. That same day I forwarded >that announcement to OPE-L. > >I have referred to vampires, the undead and Marx on OPE-L >going at least as far back as May, 1996. As I explained >previously, the idea that labour is undead using the vampire >metaphor only makes sense if capital is posited as vampiric >and hence also undead. > >***I have done ABSOLUTELY nothing improper and I strongly >resent any suggestions to the contrary.*** > >====================================== > >***If there is anyone on the list _other than Rakesh_ who believes >that there has been even an iota of evidence put forward that I have >acted improperly, _please_ speak up. If not, then let us move on to >discuss other topics.*** > >In solidarity, Jerry
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