Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 23:27:51 -0500 (EST)
From: BMATHEW-AT-vms.cis.pitt.edu
Subject: Re: intro



hi,

introductions seem to be in order and so here goes...  i teach at a
college up in nj called rider college and am just about all set to
graduate out of u pitt over the next couple of weeks... i did my phd and
teach currently in a business school!!!! whats a business schooler doing
on a marxist reading group... well, strange things do happen!! my work
(for my dissertation) follows the work of the french regulationists and
some of the radical geographers/urban planner (david harvey, manuel
castells, julie graham... ) and is an effort to figure out what all this
talk about post-fordism actually means. the focus essentially is on the
production component within regimes of production-consumption and my
theses leads to me conclude that "fordism as a regime of production"
just migrated from manf. sectors into office spaces, now mass producing
packaged information as a commodity... (the famous service sector!)...
and that post-fordist rhetoric essentially provides an ideological cover
for this migration.... of course i write all this in "code" in an effort
to pull wool over my advisers eyes (he being a staunch republican!)!!...
i am hoping to take the work ahead to somekind of a theorization of what
working class politics means in the new technologically (info tech)
integrated world... hopefully i won't end up with yet another "new
working class" idea!!! 

apart from this, i also am part of various other activities... part of
an editorial collective for a progressive south asian rag called
sanskriti and also moderate a newsgroup on usenet called
"alt.india.progressive"....

as far as preferences on what to read... given that my marxist positions
evolved within a business school they essentially came through
disorganized academic readings... partial readings of so many texts -
capital included... so this discussion group will only add to that
mode of education!! more disorganized reading!!!... so anything goes...

biju
	



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