AUT: Aufheben #13 out now

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Aufheben #13 has now been published (a bit later than usual this year).

Contents are as follows:


The

Housing Question                                                                                                                   1

At a time when the housing price boom of the past five years appears to be coming to a halt, and when there is increasing concern of a severe housing shortage, the housing question is rising on the political agenda. We ask does the looming crisis in housing mark a transition to a new era in housing provision and, if so, how will this new era impact on the constitution and formation of class in Britain. As a step towards answering this question we first of all consider the particular problems of housing provision under capitalism in general. We then consider the particular history of housing provision in Britain since the nineteenth century and the impact this has had on the constitution and formation of class.



The Arcane of Reproductive Production                                                                                     18

Leopoldina Fortunati's pamphlet The Arcane of Reproduction offers us the possibility to comment on key questions which have been central within autonomist Marxism: does reproduction work, or, in general, work outside the sphere of production produce value? Is unwaged activity organised and commanded by capital in the same way as waged work and to what extent? How does capital subsume all activity inside and outside the sphere of production? How useful is it to describe our society as a 'social factory'? Is capitalism just the imposition of work and discipline? Is it true that labour power is 'a commodity like all others'? And last but not least: does Fortunati share with autonomist Marxism a tradition of incompatibility with... mathematics? In trying to answer these questions we compare Fortunati with other theorists from the autonomist tradition (Harry Cleaver, Massimo De Angelis, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt).



Théorie Communiste responds                                                                                                       39

In Aufheben #11 we published a critique of our articles on ?decadence? (from Aufheben issues 2-4) by the French group Théorie Communiste (TC). In the following issue we published our reply to TC?s critique. Since then we have had a number of exchanges with TC in which they responded to our reply. We have collected together and edited their written responses on the following points: (1) whether the proletariat has to recognise itself to abolish itself; (2) The possibility of a second phase of real subsumption of labour under capital; and (3) the concept of alienation.


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n           Aufheben
(past tense: hob auf; past participle: aufgehoben; noun: Aufhebung)

There is no adequate English equivalent to the German word Aufheben. In German, it can mean ?to pick up?, ?to raise?, ?to keep?, ?to preserve?, but also ?to end?, ?to abolish?, ?to annul?. Hegel exploited this duality of meaning to describe the dialectical process whereby a higher form of thought or being supersedes a lower form, while at the same time ?preserving? its ?moments of truth?. The proletariat?s revolutionary negation of capitalism, communism, is an instance of this dialectical movement of supersession, as is the theoretical expression of this movement in the method of critique developed by Marx.

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