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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:20:44 -0400
From: Thomas Schumacher <schumacher.2-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: Kondratieff


I'm not sure that there is too much of a connection to long-wave theory (a
la Kondratieff), at least from their side, if only because it seems that
the waves or cycles of desiring production are not predetermined.  It would
be very interesting, however, to switch it around and try to make sense of
Deleuze or schizoanalysis with the insights of Kontratieff, perhaps by way
of Mandel and Jameson?  It seems that if there is a connection, it's to do
with the idea of displaced limits and the ways in which the business cycle
has to constantly fight off overproduction crises, but don't they say that
history is an accident?  This would make a long-wave analysis more tenuous.

Tom S.



   

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