A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

creation is the psyche of the speaking individual. It thereby makes linguistic creation an analogue of aesthetic creation. The r ...

its own tendencies and the system consequently ignores human history – that of the community of its speakers. For Voloshinov, be ...

The second thesisis the positive converse of the first. If language is not an abstract system, it is because it is a human pract ...

an interlocutory, subjective position which I do not want to occupy can not only be returned, but taken up, taken on, and revalu ...

spectacularly fruitful way: we do not expect a work devoted to the Marxist philosophy of language to contain a chapter, which is ...

dialogue. In other words, the concept of unconscious, like the Saussurian concept of langue, is the result of a process of fetis ...

between analyst and analysand is indeed a power relation, as is any relationship between doctor and patient. To approach these r ...

with interest that the practice is consistent. Whatever the concept, however colourful its name (nomadism, assemblage, war machi ...

From a Marxist text or position I expect: (i) an analysis of capitalism in terms which, however attuned to current tastes, are i ...

ambivalence of the concept having adversely affected the Marxist theory of ideology (take, for example, the history of the conce ...

is the exclusive property of Marxism, their conjunction determines a generally Marxist position, which I am going to use to elab ...

a copy, is clear: the task of the philosopher of history is to periodise; the content of the periodisation varies. Finally, I wi ...

but a materialism of corporeal assemblages, of combinations, without metaphors, of desiring machines. They can hardly be accused ...

know the significance of the concept of ‘plane’ of immanence or coherence in Deleuze’s thinking: smooth or striated space, nomos ...

opposed to that of structure):^23 not an instrument, a complex tool marking a necessary yet transient stage in the metamorphoses ...

justice, convents, etc.). This involves an organization of space (from the manor to the cathedral), a hierarchical social body ( ...

(even though, whether in the work of Deleuze or of Deleuze and Guattari, they scarcely survived beyond it). Expelling the subjec ...

Marxists, from following philosophers who do everything in their power to warrant the sobriquet anarcho-désirants? Rather than e ...

We can already see the proximity of these theses to those that have been extracted from the Marxist tradition: the stress on ord ...

it is consubstantial with it. Hence this famous formula: ‘A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. ...