For those of us looking to make some headway through the daunting Capital, via the intrepid, globe trotting N.Pepperell of Roughtheory.
Just stumbled across davidharvey.org, which is serialising 13, two-hour lectures from David Harvey, focussed on providing a close reading the first volume of Capital – up to chapter three so far, with chapters 4-6 due online in 6 days.
Now you too can woo, astonish, and intimidate all your theory friends with a precise and detailed grasp of Capital. Hurry fast, as offers are limited. The capacity of the internet to infinitely reproduce video files will soon be exhausted. The first fifty viewers will, in addition, receive a pervasive sense of despair from their new-found understanding of the dynamics of capitalism, amplified by a lack of this knowledge from friends, family, lovers, and elected politicians.
And as if that wasn’t neat enough, the new Firefox 3.0 browser really rocks, so go give it a try.
Larval Subjects . 
June 23, 2008 at 2:22 am
Agreed about Firefox 3.0; the improved images are really a big deal, although some of the interface choices seem unwise.
August 31, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Just discovered your blog and that of Fractal ontology through the search engine Exalead, and I am very happy to read both. Keep it up if you can, though the existential enchiladas feeling can be quite real, and is so here too in Paris, independently of the isolation of academia in the States, which I had felt too.
Concerning reading Marx, I just want to point out an excellent publication. As you probably know, here in France, the last few years have witnessed a renewed interest in Marx (e.g, the work of Jacques Bidet and of Actuel Marx), and now the GEME (Grande Edition Marx et Engels, Editions Sociales, a new and commented translation of the complete works, much needed in the french language).The book i have in mind is by Tran Hai Hac, published in 2003 by Editions Page Deux in two volumes (it is about 800 pages) and entitled “Relire ‘le capital'”. it is a very careful and original analysis, taking into account too the reception of the three volumes of Capital (and the other writings) and a must for a renewed Marx. It’s most general conducting thread is given by its subtitle: “Marx, critique de l’économie politique et objet de la critique de l’économie politique”.
To put it briefly/ Marx’s work must be understood as a radical destruction of political economy and not reappropriated into a “good, viable, scientific” political economy versus an ideological one.
Of course, saying that does not do justice to the work, which should be read, but suggest why Hai Hac examines critically the reception of Marx’s text at length (see for instance, the tremendous work he does on the concept of “travail abstrait-concret” in volume 1, ch.1 and 2)
At any rate, I hope this can interest you and your readers.
All the best,
Olivier S.
September 6, 2008 at 3:47 pm
[…] how I have to be careful with what I wish because it may become true. The excellent Larval Subjects cited RoughTheory who in turn linked to David Harvey. It is not the journey that is referred to when I […]