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roachboy · 02-08-2006, 05:00 PM

there are lots of books that i could recommend--only just now stubled across this thread (dunno why i missed it) so i'll maybe post more once i have thought about this a bit (brain is slow sometimes)....

the best book on globalizing capitalism i know of is manuel castell's "rise of the network society"---highly articulate, empirically very dense (look at the footnotes)--castells isolates better than anyone i have read the main features of globalizing capitalism, the crises that have and are being provoked by it (including a real problem for articulating social identity--on this you can see the bush-style american right and "islamic fundamentalism" as parallel rather than antagonistic)...a central problem that i see running through most politics (left and right) is the inability to work out how to think about, much less respond to, the gradual implosion of nation-states as the horizon within which economic activity is organized. this generates effects at nearly every level--but this fact appears to freak people out, so they run away from it, hiding in old, often analytically worthless ways of thinking.

full disclosure: it is not as though i have secretly worked anything out about how to think through this stuff--but more often than not i see a total inability to even pose coherent questions about the implications of this new mutation in capitalist organization. what i am fascinated with is how folk avoid this problem,and from this follows my interest (which i suppose in this space appears to border on obsession because i think it is all i really talk about--except in music or philo, where i do other things) discourse/ideology--what deleuze called machines, more or less---these strange circuits that people take over for themselves and which generate similar results in all who deploy them.

food just arrived, so i am off. more later. this is an interesting thread, methinks. glad you started it, justjess.....

02-08-2006, 05:00 PM	#30 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	there are lots of books that i could recommend--only just now stubled across this thread (dunno why i missed it) so i'll maybe post more once i have thought about this a bit (brain is slow sometimes).... the best book on globalizing capitalism i know of is manuel castell's "rise of the network society"---highly articulate, empirically very dense (look at the footnotes)--castells isolates better than anyone i have read the main features of globalizing capitalism, the crises that have and are being provoked by it (including a real problem for articulating social identity--on this you can see the bush-style american right and "islamic fundamentalism" as parallel rather than antagonistic)...a central problem that i see running through most politics (left and right) is the inability to work out how to think about, much less respond to, the gradual implosion of nation-states as the horizon within which economic activity is organized. this generates effects at nearly every level--but this fact appears to freak people out, so they run away from it, hiding in old, often analytically worthless ways of thinking. full disclosure: it is not as though i have secretly worked anything out about how to think through this stuff--but more often than not i see a total inability to even pose coherent questions about the implications of this new mutation in capitalist organization. what i am fascinated with is how folk avoid this problem,and from this follows my interest (which i suppose in this space appears to border on obsession because i think it is all i really talk about--except in music or philo, where i do other things) discourse/ideology--what deleuze called machines, more or less---these strange circuits that people take over for themselves and which generate similar results in all who deploy them. food just arrived, so i am off. more later. this is an interesting thread, methinks. glad you started it, justjess..... __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 02-08-2006 at 05:05 PM..