tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25834052.post4622371010486461983..comments2023-04-26T00:27:13.288-05:00Comments on High Low and in Between: a highly complicated world in continual motionhighlowbetweenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17449795767787458873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25834052.post-45160855339795190412008-01-07T11:38:00.000-05:002008-01-07T11:38:00.000-05:00Thanks for still checking in! I was trying to be p...Thanks for still checking in! I was trying to be pithy with my comment ;)<BR/><BR/>I really appreciate the topic/ and lead on that book. Had no idea of it's existence.highlowbetweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17449795767787458873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25834052.post-42657337743072986092008-01-03T20:24:00.000-05:002008-01-03T20:24:00.000-05:00Not only one reader... ;-)To be honest, I don't r...Not <EM>only</EM> one reader... ;-)<BR/><BR/>To be honest, I don't read Marx as an economist - I read him as someone trying to understand why the sorts of "decontextualised" forms of thought we associate with political economy could arise. One of his central questions is something like: what sort of context presents itself as a total absence of context? What kind of anthropological determination presents itself as what is left behind, once you strip away all anthropological determinations? <BR/><BR/>But I was very struck by the Lafargue description, as well - it gives one of the best "feels" I've seen for the fact that much more is going on in <EM>Capital</EM> than at first appears to be happening...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com