A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

is a link in a chain of utterances. This recalls Lyotard’s serial montage, which he contrasts with the parallel montage of divin ...

the most important aspect of this thesis arguably lies elsewhere. It consists in the conclusion that follows from the primacy of ...

is ascribedto bodies, it makes itself corporeal, just as a chemical precipitate appears in a transparent solution. This ‘incorpo ...

distinction between base and superstructure, or between deep structure and surface structure: all dimensions of the assemblage a ...

language of empire and is subject to all the vicissitudes that this involves. The centrifugal forces that are acting on it will ...

It seems to me that these utterances perfectly illustrate Deleuze and Guattari’s theses. They are, in fact, order-words. This is ...

been said. Finally, it might be thought that thesis six is not illustrated here, for the slogans – composed in standard French – ...

Chapter Six Propositions (1) Six theses The construction – or reconstruction – is already under way. To re-read the texts of Ma ...

language, from Saussure and Chomsky to Habermas; positively, albeit implicitly and in disorderly fashion, they are already prese ...

question of no longer regarding them as stable or static things or facts, but as dynamic processes: a ‘word’ covers a series of ...

pragmatic struggle in which the ‘rules’ are at stake. This is why I propose to place at the centre of the study of language prag ...

and prior to her, and on which she will leave her mark – possibly even a lasting mark – through linguistic or literary creation. ...

of diachrony; it is that of the totality of a social process: it is interwoven with the history of culture, of class struggle, a ...

a highly imperfect instrument, which betrays the speaker ’s intended meanings, makes her say what she did not mean to say or did ...

orders and are thereby transformed into articulated language; or in the rhythmical sounds accompanying labour in common and find ...

vigour (especially when dealing with the relations of domination of one sex over the other). It is in this spirit that I want to ...

order becomes an order to the self: it is thus that the isolated hunter, separated from the rest of the group, urges himself on. ...

It is in the same way that their descendents – today’s children – become persons. We have here a very attractive myth. But a myt ...

prerequisite for, but rather a product of, the historical development of human consciousness.’^8 This means that the myth of ori ...

But Althusser ’s definition of practice is not faithful to the Aristotelian origin of the concept; in other words, Althusserian ...