Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 10:12:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Kurtz <ak35+-AT-andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: intro 



As for introductions:

I'm finishing my dissertation in English at Carnegie Mellon U. -- hope
to defend sometime this fall semester.    My dissertation is ostensibly
an extended reading/critique of Laclau's and Mouffe's Hegemony and
Socialist Strategy.  I use this book text in order to think about
questions of essentialism and anti-essentialism in Marxist theory
(especially in terms of how these questions impact upon Marxist
political economy).   I am also heavily invested in an attempt to sketch
a theory of cultural processes that strikes some middle ground between
the economic essentialism of base/superstructure and (in my opinion) the
politically empty theories of Laclau and Mouffe.   I could go on
forever...

Anyway, I'm really glad this list exists.  I, for one, love
reading/thinking Marx.  I believe I recall in the introductory notes to
this group a suggestion that we begin with Capital (ok by me).  Am I to
understand that this is to be a reading-group of sorts? Could someone
fill me in?

thanx,
Andy


"Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking
living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."  Capital
v.1 

 


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