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I’ve been working out a reading of the Hegel-Marx relation via Hyppolite in the early 1950s. In previous installments (one, two, three, four, five, six), I’ve tried to develop a lot of the background for why the appearance of Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence in 1953 was so important in that context. Last time, I made [ ]
I’ve been working out a reading of the Hegel-Marx relation via Hyppolite in the early 1950s. In previous installments (one, two, three, four, five), I’ve tried to develop a lot of the context for why the appearance of Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence in 1953 was so important in that context. Here, I’ll start looking at [ ]
I’ve been working out some of the context for Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and why it might matter for a reading of Marx (one, two, three, four). Last time, I started a look at Hyppolite’s late 1940s reading of Marx; today I want to finish that. Last time, I looked at (a) The line Althusser [ ]
I’ve been working out some of the context for Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and why it might matter for a reading of Marx (one, two, three). Last time, I looked at Althusser’s 1950 (anonymously published) critique of the use of Hegel in understanding Marx, an essay that seems to be particularly aggrieved by Hyppolite’s work [ ]
I’m working out a thread (part 1, part 2) suggesting that that Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence (1953), which reads Hegel through the Logic and not the Phenomenology, and thereby pushes a non-humanist reading of Hegel, mattered for the French reading of Marx, which hinged on whether Marx inherited humanism or anthropology from Hegel. I then [ ]
Last time, I started a thread on Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence (1953) and its non-humanist reading of Hegel, and how that bears on Marx interpretation. The first step was to set some context, since Marx interpretation is always perilous, and was especially so during the 1950s, given the political demands of the French Communist Party [ ]
One of Monday’s Supreme Court rulings, Chatrie v. U.S., has flown under the radar, but I think it’s a potentially important privacy case. The case concerns the police practice of geofenced searches, in which the police would map out an area, usually a specified radius around a crime scene, and demand all of the cellphone [ ]
In the US at least, as far as I can tell, Jean Hyppolite is largely unknown outside of specialists in 20c French thought and Hegel. Hyppolite is best-known here for his influential Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which appeared in 1946-7. In 1953, however, he published Logic and Existence (L E), which took [ ]
The judgments of algorithmic systems are often difficult to understand. The system says you do not qualify for this loan – sorry! You no longer qualify for x benefit – sorry! Why? Well, that’s just what it says. And it’s impossibly opaque, for a variety of reasons – the underlying code and data are trade [ ]
Forthcoming in Philosophy and Social Criticism; preprint here on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Algorithmic governance is sometimes compared to Hobbes s Leviathan. Here I argue that, while algorithmic governance shares some similarities with the Hobbesian schema, it goes further in its suppression of contestation. To show this, I read Hobbes against Rancière s reduction of him [ ]