hidden enemies- “To infinity and beyond!”
October 5th, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: Heidegger and Fertiliser :: Faye again [was this medicine has/has not been tested on human animals] :: FYI - heil :: Fertiliser [was a question for rene,Haber was one of ‘the hidden> enemies’.
> What do you mean by “immaterial labor-power”? Isn’t
> labour-power humanly
> embodied?
There’s horse power, water power, and solar power.
Take a simple look at power as definition. Power is
defined as the capacity to do work. Labour is work,
and any improvement to increase the efficiency of
labour is also work, even if it was ‘immaterial’. To
this can be added emotive power, or the power of
persuasion and power of doing nothing [in some cases].
Those working in the area of policy development do
work which though appearing immaterial are giving up
the ability to do other work: physical work, child
minding, teaching, etc.
In thinking of wholeness, and it’s phenomenological
properties and relations between those properties.
Then even thinking becomes a labour, but in a sense
thinking is free from the capacity of doing work,
unless it liberates a desire to create something novel
or unique, or alter a situation.
Chao
John
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>
> In the Italian Marxists tradition it means
> linguistic power and refers to a
> “general intellect” as discussed in that book by
> Paulo Virno that I provided
> a link to a while back. Negri in _Time for a
> Revolutions_ talks of the
> liberation of living labour from dead labor, and
> exodus from participation
> in measure to an opening of the immesurable. He
> thinks of this as an amorous
> practice because the more common a general intellect
> is the more it is
> erotic. I know it sounds crazy. I have been
> connecting this to Bloch’s
> understanding of productivity and dynamis and
> artistic labor, etc in his
> book on the philosophy of hope.
>
> tympan
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