Like Antonio Gramsci found himself confined to Mussolini's dungeons, having to jot down short lines of thought in small notebooks, I at times find myself confined to the kitchen table, by a laptop, forced by an uncontrollable impulse to comment on something I have seen or read, to write a few short lines about some subject.
I recently aquired a (Norwegian language) copy of Franz Kafkas “Letters to Milena” [1], collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923.
The following article was published today by the International Gramsci Society: http://www.internationalgramscisociety.org/resources/online_articles/ind...
Gramsci in Scandinavia – Notes On Ehnmark’s Gramsci
Gramsci in Scandinavia
Browse figures and tables from Capital in the 21st century here:
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/pdf/
Like Antonio Gramsci found himself confined to Mussolini's dungeons, having to jot down short lines of thought in small notebooks, I at times find myself confined to the kitchen table, by a laptop, forced by an uncontrollable impulse to comment on something I have seen or read, to write a few short lines about some subject.
I recently started reading Monthly Review Press’ edition of Antonio A. Santucci’s Antonio Gramsci. One of the best known concepts Gramsci developed is the concept of "common sense". Gramsci describes common sense as:
common sense identifies exact, simple, and practical causes through a set of judgments, and it does not allow itself to be drawn into metaphysical, pseudo-profound, pseudo-scientific, etc., quibbles and absurdities” (Q, p. 1334) (quoted in Santucci p 139).
This is a description which I find quite precise to this date. The focus on exact and simple causalities makes it difficult to introduce more complex ideas (or ideas that seem more complex) when you have political opponents that counter your ideas with more simple concepts.
This years Marxist X-mas carol is about the italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci. Enjoy:
I unfortunately did not have time to make a video. Perhaps Next X-mas?
Lyrics: "Must Be Gramsci"
Who's updatet marxist theory
Gramsci updated the theory
Who coined the term hegemony
Gramsci coined hegemony
Theory, Hegemony
Must be Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Must be Gramsci: Tony G
Who's got glasses and curly hair
New RedStar Budapest album release with brand new electronica mixes of classic Iceberg trax: http://redstarbudapest.blogspot.no/2013/09/uj-mp3-new-mp3.html
Download and enjoy!
I vår serie Anbefalte tegneserier for den intellektuelle unge kvinne og mann, er vi i dag kommet til den franske klassikeren Asterix. Begynn fra starten, så slipper du å begynne med de skuffende siste albumene, men får med deg Goscinnys fantasifulle og sprudlende manus.
I engelsk oversettelse: http://freecomics.000a.biz/ (link dead)
Som mange tidligere år, vil vi også i år feire den marxistiske høytiden, Julen, i den rette ånd, med oppbyggelige sosialistiske julesanger! Årets julelåt er en stemningsfull oppfordring til fagorganisering, til kjente juletoner. Hør årets julesang "Organize", under.
Disclosing basic ploblems with the current economic system:
http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/
I realized, as I had suspected all along, that this was a standardized email sent an mass to people employed at universities and colleges around the world. The company presented its business-idea as making all sorts of academic work that normally only collect dust on local campus libraries available online as print-on-demand. Basically, I think this sounds as a good idea, but I did not like the way the company tried to present itself as a genuine academic publishing house. This kind of subtle falsehood is, in my view not compatible with academic values. In addition, publishing with them would mean giving them rights to my work.
However, I thought the idea of making old academic works available for a larger audience sounded good. If only there was a way I could do this without the pretence and dishonesty, and without giving away the rights to my own work.
