From: "David McInerney" <borderlands-AT-optusnet.com.au>
Subject: AUT: Jason Read
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 10:51:09 +0930


Anyone wanting a table of contents and other info regarding Jason Read's
book should go to the following page:
http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60812
Regarding Lowe's points, it is interesting to note the attitude - expressed
as one of generational difference - evident in the endorsement on that page
of noted Althusserian literary theorist Warren Montag:

"This book represents a thoughtful reconsideration of Marx's notion of the
mode of production and does so in a way that is likely to appeal to a new
and younger readership by showing that mode of production is not simply an
economic concept but one that can explain the forms of subjectivity peculiar
to different kinds of social organization. The theoretical framework of the
book is refreshingly broad; the author draws from a number of theoretical
and philosophical schools and cannot easily be categorized as 'Deleuzean' or
'Althusserian.' This represents the perspective of a generation no longer
constrained by the notion of opposing theoretical camps so prevalent in the
1980s and '90s." - Warren Montag, author of _Louis Althusser_

Jason and Warren are the most recent additions to the editorial advisory
board of borderlands, reflecting their sustained support of our journal,
although they have not formally been added to the webpage yet, given that
our managing editor and publisher Tony Burke is currently overseas.

David McInerney
Borderlands e-journal
www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lowe Laclau" <lowelaclau-AT-hotmail.com>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: Bologna on postfordism


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> Hello Nate,
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> No. Have not seen this book yet here. But perhaps I will pick it up my
next trip to the states. It'd be interesting to see how he approaches these
issues and the differences between the theorists who have taken up
specifically this theme of the production of subjectivity. One attribution
of Read's that I disagree with (and I've only read that one paper at
Borderlands from him) is the notion of the socius that D&G use in
AntiOedipus. He says its from Althusser's "society effect", but I disagree.
D uses this type of thinking already in Logic of Sense, where he's talking
about Structuralism, but not Althusser. His reference is anthropological in
origin... its Levi-Strauss. And at a more individual level, his concern
about the production of sense (on what is 'sense' inscribed but a subject?)
is derived from his readings of Nietzsche, Spinoza and Hume. When Read later
mentions their critique of Althusser and how Althusser himself later changed
what he said he still kind of leaves
>  the implication that this idea of the socius can still be attributed to
him. I say no. It was never his. It may have been taken from an
interpretation of the limits of structuralist thought but not Althussers per
se. One would also have to look at Guattari's writings, as he seems to have
known him a bit better and was extremely critical of a lot of Althusser's
Lacanianisms in writings before AO. The essential difference is that
Althusser went through a deep phase of structuralist though before changing.
That structuralism was never part of their work officially. Logic of Sense
was up to the 13th series structuralist in orientation... before Deleuze has
some weird epiphany and breaks up that organization. And AO was very much an
entirely POSTstructuralist (insofar as they overtly attach its positions)
text from beginning to end. But otherwise I like Read's writing. Just not
his desire to make more of certain semblances than what is really there. I'd
like to hear more about wh
>  a
> t he says in the book... interesting or provocative quotes, saying etc...
if you have the chance.
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> ciao
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> Lowe
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> >From: Nate Holdren <nateholdren-AT-gmail.com>
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> >Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
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> >To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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> >Subject: Re: AUT: Bologna on postfordism
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> >Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:28:15 -0700
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> >Hello Angela, Lowe-
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> >Have you had a chance to look Jason Read's book the Micropolitics of
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> >Capital? It's quite good, makes interesting claims about the
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> >production of subjectivity in relation to capitalism in its various
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> >instantiations, and is great on readings of operaismo and French
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> >post-whatever stuff.
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> >As Marx says someplace, one of the principal products of work under
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> >capitalism is the capital-labor relationship. The production of
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> >subjectivity seems to falls cleanly under that heading (for those of
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> >us possessed of the need to fit everything we read into the slots of
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> >Marx[ism]). Given that Bologna's work (at least the stuff in English,
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> >all I've read) is analysis and history of various formations of a
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> >class subject, it makes a lot of sense that Bologna and other
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> >operaisti would dovetail so closely with Foucault...
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