Disassembling Capital

Have only read a couple of items on Diane Elson from Nicole Pepperell's blog roughtheory.org, and read once quickly through a draft of thesis with file date 2010-08-03. Needs much more detailed study, including literature of related "dialectics" schools (and review of Bill's emails).

Meanwhile this is just to note that Nicole might be well positioned at RMIT to involve both computer science students interested in UML business models and economics/business students interested in economic theory with her own work drawing attention to the anthropologically detailed choreography of "miniature dramas" by which Marx describes different roles and practices from which both the emergent features and the corresponding "performative stances" and subjectiity emerge.

I can't comment on her conclusions concerning the “literary” features of the text such as tone and voice, character,

. Would require a careful re-reading of the thesis together with Marx's texts and its not my area of interest.

But the "close reading" she provides of quotes describing "miniature dramas" does strike me as much closer to Marx's intent than what generally passes for Marxism. Includes a basic grasp of the dialectics of use value and exchange value that is usually completely (and fatally) missing (though Rosdolsky manages to get some of it despite having other problems).

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