TY - JOUR
T1 - Capital : at least it kills time (Spinoza, Marx, Lacan, and temporality)
AU - Kordela, A.Kiarina
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The theory of temporality and historicity in question is based on two fundamentaltheses. First, in secular capitalism, semantic (language) and economic systems, and subjectivity*/since the speaking subject is the subject of the signifier*/are homologous systems of value. Second, time and social reality relate to one another interms of Spinozist immanent causality, in which the cause (a priori time) is an effectof its own effects (empirical reality). This causality marks not only fantasy and desire but also so-called deductive logic and developmental history. Secular reason (including historiography) must become conscious of its own circularity or fantasmatic character. Addressing leading Marxist approaches to history, such as stage theories of capitalist development and the neo-Spinozist and deconstructionist Left, I argue that our concept of the ‘future’ must be radically revised. The ‘physical’ time of decaying bodies is left for a book that will link secular temporality to biopolitics.
AB - The theory of temporality and historicity in question is based on two fundamentaltheses. First, in secular capitalism, semantic (language) and economic systems, and subjectivity*/since the speaking subject is the subject of the signifier*/are homologous systems of value. Second, time and social reality relate to one another interms of Spinozist immanent causality, in which the cause (a priori time) is an effectof its own effects (empirical reality). This causality marks not only fantasy and desire but also so-called deductive logic and developmental history. Secular reason (including historiography) must become conscious of its own circularity or fantasmatic character. Addressing leading Marxist approaches to history, such as stage theories of capitalist development and the neo-Spinozist and deconstructionist Left, I argue that our concept of the ‘future’ must be radically revised. The ‘physical’ time of decaying bodies is left for a book that will link secular temporality to biopolitics.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/532789
U2 - 10.1080/08935690600901202
DO - 10.1080/08935690600901202
M3 - Article
SN - 0893-5696
VL - 18
SP - 539
EP - 563
JO - Rethinking Marxism
JF - Rethinking Marxism
IS - 4
ER -