Re: [OPE-L] The Haunted Conference

[Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@xxxxxxx>]

A week before Halloween, it should be noted that in the same
city where there is  Highgate Cemetery (the inspiration for Bram
Stoker's  'Dracula' and, coincidentally, where Karl Marx is buried:
see post "Karl Marx and Vampires" dated 10/13) there will be a
paper presented in a workshop on _Capital_ by an Italian
scholar on --

"A GHOST TURNING INTO A VAMPIRE: THE CONCEPT
OF CAPITAL AND LIVING LABOUR"

Will this paper transform the "Historical Materialism" conference?
Will  the "Friends of Highgate Cemetery"  and the Gothic underworld
of London turn out for this event?  Can the time for the workshop
(currently scheduled for 1-2:45 on a Saturday afternoon) be re-
scheduled for a time after night fall to accommodate some of those
who might wish to make their presence known at this event?

In solidarity, Jerry

PS: Marx referred (metaphorically, of course) to constant capital
as "dead labor."    Yet, if we are to take the vampire metaphor
literally, he should have referred to it as UNDEAD labor.  Another
case of mixed metaphors, I guess.