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Posted on 30/05/2023 by ann li-summers

Friday essay: could a reinterpreted Marxism have solutions to our unprecedented environmental crisis? Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne In 2021, Kohei Saito’s Capital in the Anthropocene became a publishing sensation in Japan, eventually selling more than half a million … Continue reading →

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Land art, labor art, capital art, and settler colonialism

Posted on 21/10/2022 by ann li-summers

Late capitalism’s production of cultural objects involves commodities making other commodities whether as art installation in an urban art gallery or as the remote desert site documented by photography, made now entrepreneurial for tourism as well as confounding the public policy for … Continue reading →

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Theories of Surplus-Value is/is not [Volume IV of Capital]

Posted on 28/07/2022 by ann li-summers

(Heinrich 2021) A P P E N D I X 1 Marx’s Critical Economic Writings Of the three “theoretical” books of Capital that Marx planned to write, he was only able to finish the first one, dealing with the production … Continue reading →

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Why machines don’t create value (in Cosmonaut magazine)

Posted on 18/10/2021 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠:
My article, published in Cosmonaut magazine, explains why human labour, and human labour alone, is the cause of profit. https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/10/why-machines-dont-create-value/

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Towards a Liberal Critique of Left Neo-Liberalism Policy

Posted on 12/03/2018 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on Rortybomb:
Have you ever played that game where everyone tries to keep a balloon in the air as long as possible? Lots of people are discussing the lack of a political agenda in neoliberalism’s policies based on…

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Structural substitution and the logic of urban modernism

Posted on 31/12/2016 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on Flowers For Socrates:
By ann summers occupying a space for a time en.wikipedia.org/… ? Here are some examples of cultural substitution in the built environment that articulate multiple meanings and identify an axis or axes of more than geodetic importance.…

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Earth art… “Most people wouldn’t know (art) if it came up and bit them on the ass.” – Frank Zappa

Posted on 15/12/2016 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on Flowers For Socrates:
 “Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.” – Frank Zappa By ann summers This is why I always wanted my own bulldozer… (2015) Artist Michael Heizer,…

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Badiou, Extension, and Networks

Posted on 25/09/2016 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
One of the most attractive, problematic, and astonishing features of Badiou’s ontology is his strictly extensional understanding of sets or multiplicities. A set is not defined by its members sharing a common predicate or quality,…

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Histories of commons repeat themselves as tragedy and farce

Posted on 20/10/2015 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on Flowers For Socrates:
By ann summers “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (Who watches the watchers) Juvenal Recently, a US rancher with unfortunate racist and fascist tendencies came to the attention of US media with unfortunate consequences but an…

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Hello world!

Posted on 16/08/2010 by ann li-summers

This site will occasionally feature some musings about my current research and include monographs as well as serve to collect the literature related to this topic

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