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Living Labour and the Labour of Living. A Little Tractate for Looking Forward

Darko Suvin


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Abstract

An approach to the insights of Marx indispensable for looking forward today under- stands them as a fusion of three domains and horizons (cognition, liberty, and plea- sure), with a set of regulative principles (dialectic, measure, absolute swerve), and a focus on living labour. The discussion progresses from Epicure and Fourier to Manc’s form- giving fire of living labour. Against this horizon, capitalism is discussed as a cultural revolution based on measuring labour by means of quantitative time, opposed to use-value qualities, as well as through the metaphors from horror fantasy which Marx found to be appropriate to such a revolution. Its alliance with entropy leads to alienation and loneliness, and finally to a death-bringing economy. An Appendix on political economy and entropy discusses the situation today and a minimum program of counter-measures, beginning with rejection of BNP, which includes minimizing entropy.

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Hrčak ID:

202954

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202954

Publication date:

2.3.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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