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Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies or the Critique of Political Economy? By Mark Neocleous

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Subject: Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies or the Critique of Political Economy? By Mark Neocleous
From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:06:15 -0700

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Title: Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studie

Jerry,

While Neocleous argued in the History of Political Thought (2003--I sent

you the cite offlist) that capital is vampiric because though dead it

comes to life exactly through the appropriation of the sensuous life of labor--capital

thus be-com-ing the undead--you said that the vampire metaphor suggests

that labor itself should be referred to as undead labor. I don't quite follow your

reasoning.

It seems that you are both handling the metaphor quite differently.

At any rate, has anyone read Neocleous' book on the monstrous in Marx and

Burke?

Rakesh

glevy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (glevy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Sat, 4 May 1996 04:56:48 -0700

Massimo asked in [OPE-L:2072]:
> "A great deal of capital, which appears today in the United States
> without any birth-certificate, was yesterday, in England,
> the capitalised blood of children." (V.I. p. 921)

> I guess also the quote could be dismissed on the ground that
> it represents a simple metaphor, in which case I would like
> ask: a metaphor for what? May I have your distinguished
> views on the matter
It's a vampire metaphor, of course. Taking the metaphor literally, one
could refer to labor as "undead labor" -- neither completely living or
truly dead.
In OPE-L Solidarity,

Jerry

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- [OPE-L] Shadow Statistics, glevy Sun 23 Apr 2006, 13:31 GMT
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- [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies or the Critique of Political Economy? By Mark Neocleous, Rakesh Bhandari Sat 22 Apr 2006, 01:18 GMT
  - Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies or the Critique of Political Economy? By Mark Neocleous, Rakesh Bhandari Tue 25 Apr 2006, 00:06 GMT
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      Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies or the Critique of Political Economy? By Mark Neocleous, Rakesh Bhandari Tue 25 Apr 2006, 02:41 GMT
      
      Re: [OPE-L] Bloody Capital and Dead Labour Cultural Studies or the Critique of Political Economy? By Mark Neocleous, Jerry Levy Tue 25 Apr 2006, 03:18 GMT
      
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