Beverley Best
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1394579 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Beverley Best |
| PRENOMES | Beverley |
| SOBRENOME | Best |
| ASSINATURA | BEST B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5285-9701 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Marx’s Critical Theory of Slavery
Marx’s critical theory of slavery is the operational subtext throughout his critique of political economy. For Marx, the movement from modern slavery to capital represents a historical transition of significance, not only (or foremost) as an empirical transition but also as a transformation of social substance. Marx reveals why, in retrospect, production based on slavery, as logical configuration, must give way to the generalising logic of wage l…
The commune is our payable debt
This essay holds a conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva's book, Unpayable Debt. Ferreira da Silva describes Unpayable Debt as a Black feminist reading tool that stages the onto-epistemological conditions for the unrelenting persistence of the Colonial and the Racial-modalities of power and violence-in the present, in/as global capital. A major part of the work performed by Ferreira da Silva with this reading tool is the re/de/composition of…
Wages for Housework Redux
Wages for Housework! This demand on the part of radical feminists in the 1970s was underwritten by a critique of the role of reproductive labor for capitalist accumulation that challenged contemporary Marxist orthodoxy. Since then, this critique has advanced urgent and insightful contributions to contemporary Marxist and feminist theory. Here, I revisit its challenge to the question of value and accumulation. I argue that the call to wage reprodu…
The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory
The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signal…
Sensing art and artifacts
This article proposes a sensory studies methodology for the interpretation of museum objects. The proposed method unfolds in two phases: virtual encounter via an on-line catalog and actual exposure in the context of a handling workshop. In addition to exploring the écart between image and object, the “Sensing Art and Artifacts” exercise articulates a framework for arriving at a multisensory, cross-cultural, interactive understanding of aesthetic …
Art aesthetics in China
This paper begins with Nick Pearce's exploration of how the senses are engaged as tools in the production and connoisseurship of the high arts in China, starting with calligraphy and moving on to a consideration of painting, bronze vessels and funerary objects. The sensuous dimensions of these diverse media are evoked and also, at a more abstract level, the peculiarly Chinese "sense of temporality" that imbues them with meaning and value. The imp…
Political Economy through the Looking Glass
Two sets of co-authors, LiPuma and Lee, and Bryan and Rafferty, each argue that contemporary ‘speculative’ or ‘circulatory’ capitalism represents a deep rupture in the modality of capitalist accumulation from earlier forms of industrial capitalism such that the Marxian critique of value-form is now redundant. I argue that despite the altered surface-appearances of financialisation, the essential character of social domination carried out in the p…
Distilling a Value Theory of Ideology from Volume Three of Capital
This discussion is a reformulation of ideology-critique from the point of view of Marx’s theory of the value form. This rethinking of ideology – a formulation I call a value theory of ideology – is carried out through a reading of Marx’s analysis of the capitalist perceptual economy articulated most systematically in Volume iii of Capital . In the course of this ‘rethinking’ I also revisit several concepts that have become associated with Marxian…
Speculating Without Hedging
For Laclauian discourse theory, Marx's critical political economy posits an intolerably speculative thesis: in the capitalist formation, the substance of value is abstract labour, and thereby unfurls an entire world history. Such unequivocal and emphatic positing of a suprasensible sociality – speculating without hedging – is awkward and messy (it speaks the awkwardness of the appearance-essence formulation, the indeterminable messiness of some d…
The Problem of Utopia
Contemporary globalized capital presents particular difficulties when it comes to mapping its dynamics, such that imagining what might lie beyond it becomes even more challenging than in earlier stages of capitalist development. For instance, one of the tendencies of contemporary capital is to “stall” a certain perceptual-representational faculty on the part of the collective subject that would otherwise encourage the enunciation of a collective …
Marx and the Dynamic of the Capital Formation
This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate
Fredric Jameson Notwithstanding”
Within the last decade there has emerged a discourse around biopower which is characterized by two conceptual moves, in particular: the mobilizing of, and placing central importance on, the concept of “affect”; and the jettisoning of the concept of mediation. These two moves are often represented as sharing a mutual cause and effect relationship in the historical narrative of late capitalism: affect emerges as a significant mechanism of social or…
Necessarily contingent, equally different, and relatively universal
(2000). Necessarily contingent, equally different, and relatively universal: The antinomies of Ernesto Laclau's social logic of hegemony. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 38-57
Strangers in the Night
(1999). Strangers in the Night: The Unlikely Conjunction of Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1-19
Postcolonialism and the Deconstructive Scenario
The reputed 'difficulty' of the texts of Gayatri Spivak poses an obstacle to potentially productive reflection on, and debate surrounding, her critical positions and analyses. Motivated by the attempt to address this situation, I offer this discussion as an exegetical account of some of Spivak's principle categories and arguments. I demonstrate how certain themes, such as the aporia, catachresis, subalternity, and the relationship between the nar…
Postcolonialism and the Deconstructive Scenario
The reputed 'difficulty' of the texts of Gayatri Spivak poses an obstacle to potentially productive reflection on, and debate surrounding, her critical positions and analyses. Motivated by the attempt to address this situation, I offer this discussion as an exegetical account of some of Spivak's principle categories and arguments. I demonstrate how certain themes, such as the aporia, catachresis, subalternity, and the relationship between the nar…
Sensing art and artifacts
This article proposes a sensory studies methodology for the interpretation of museum objects. The proposed method unfolds in two phases: virtual encounter via an on-line catalog and actual exposure in the context of a handling workshop. In addition to exploring the écart between image and object, the “Sensing Art and Artifacts” exercise articulates a framework for arriving at a multisensory, cross-cultural, interactive understanding of aesthetic …
Distilling a Value Theory of Ideology from Volume Three of Capital
This discussion is a reformulation of ideology-critique from the point of view of Marx’s theory of the value form. This rethinking of ideology – a formulation I call a value theory of ideology – is carried out through a reading of Marx’s analysis of the capitalist perceptual economy articulated most systematically in Volume iii of Capital . In the course of this ‘rethinking’ I also revisit several concepts that have become associated with Marxian…
Marx’s Critical Theory of Slavery
Marx’s critical theory of slavery is the operational subtext throughout his critique of political economy. For Marx, the movement from modern slavery to capital represents a historical transition of significance, not only (or foremost) as an empirical transition but also as a transformation of social substance. Marx reveals why, in retrospect, production based on slavery, as logical configuration, must give way to the generalising logic of wage l…
Fredric Jameson Notwithstanding”
Within the last decade there has emerged a discourse around biopower which is characterized by two conceptual moves, in particular: the mobilizing of, and placing central importance on, the concept of “affect”; and the jettisoning of the concept of mediation. These two moves are often represented as sharing a mutual cause and effect relationship in the historical narrative of late capitalism: affect emerges as a significant mechanism of social or…
Strangers in the Night
(1999). Strangers in the Night: The Unlikely Conjunction of Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1-19
Art aesthetics in China
This paper begins with Nick Pearce's exploration of how the senses are engaged as tools in the production and connoisseurship of the high arts in China, starting with calligraphy and moving on to a consideration of painting, bronze vessels and funerary objects. The sensuous dimensions of these diverse media are evoked and also, at a more abstract level, the peculiarly Chinese "sense of temporality" that imbues them with meaning and value. The imp…
Speculating Without Hedging
For Laclauian discourse theory, Marx's critical political economy posits an intolerably speculative thesis: in the capitalist formation, the substance of value is abstract labour, and thereby unfurls an entire world history. Such unequivocal and emphatic positing of a suprasensible sociality – speculating without hedging – is awkward and messy (it speaks the awkwardness of the appearance-essence formulation, the indeterminable messiness of some d…
Strangers in the Night
(1999). Strangers in the Night: The Unlikely Conjunction of Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1-19
Postcolonialism and the Deconstructive Scenario
The reputed 'difficulty' of the texts of Gayatri Spivak poses an obstacle to potentially productive reflection on, and debate surrounding, her critical positions and analyses. Motivated by the attempt to address this situation, I offer this discussion as an exegetical account of some of Spivak's principle categories and arguments. I demonstrate how certain themes, such as the aporia, catachresis, subalternity, and the relationship between the nar…
Necessarily contingent, equally different, and relatively universal
(2000). Necessarily contingent, equally different, and relatively universal: The antinomies of Ernesto Laclau's social logic of hegemony. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 38-57
Marx and the Dynamic of the Capital Formation
This study offers a close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis through the lens of current debates in cultural studies, political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate
Fredric Jameson Notwithstanding”
Within the last decade there has emerged a discourse around biopower which is characterized by two conceptual moves, in particular: the mobilizing of, and placing central importance on, the concept of “affect”; and the jettisoning of the concept of mediation. These two moves are often represented as sharing a mutual cause and effect relationship in the historical narrative of late capitalism: affect emerges as a significant mechanism of social or…
The Problem of Utopia
Contemporary globalized capital presents particular difficulties when it comes to mapping its dynamics, such that imagining what might lie beyond it becomes even more challenging than in earlier stages of capitalist development. For instance, one of the tendencies of contemporary capital is to “stall” a certain perceptual-representational faculty on the part of the collective subject that would otherwise encourage the enunciation of a collective …
Speculating Without Hedging
For Laclauian discourse theory, Marx's critical political economy posits an intolerably speculative thesis: in the capitalist formation, the substance of value is abstract labour, and thereby unfurls an entire world history. Such unequivocal and emphatic positing of a suprasensible sociality – speculating without hedging – is awkward and messy (it speaks the awkwardness of the appearance-essence formulation, the indeterminable messiness of some d…
Distilling a Value Theory of Ideology from Volume Three of Capital
This discussion is a reformulation of ideology-critique from the point of view of Marx’s theory of the value form. This rethinking of ideology – a formulation I call a value theory of ideology – is carried out through a reading of Marx’s analysis of the capitalist perceptual economy articulated most systematically in Volume iii of Capital . In the course of this ‘rethinking’ I also revisit several concepts that have become associated with Marxian…
Political Economy through the Looking Glass
Two sets of co-authors, LiPuma and Lee, and Bryan and Rafferty, each argue that contemporary ‘speculative’ or ‘circulatory’ capitalism represents a deep rupture in the modality of capitalist accumulation from earlier forms of industrial capitalism such that the Marxian critique of value-form is now redundant. I argue that despite the altered surface-appearances of financialisation, the essential character of social domination carried out in the p…
The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory
The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signal…
Sensing art and artifacts
This article proposes a sensory studies methodology for the interpretation of museum objects. The proposed method unfolds in two phases: virtual encounter via an on-line catalog and actual exposure in the context of a handling workshop. In addition to exploring the écart between image and object, the “Sensing Art and Artifacts” exercise articulates a framework for arriving at a multisensory, cross-cultural, interactive understanding of aesthetic …
Art aesthetics in China
This paper begins with Nick Pearce's exploration of how the senses are engaged as tools in the production and connoisseurship of the high arts in China, starting with calligraphy and moving on to a consideration of painting, bronze vessels and funerary objects. The sensuous dimensions of these diverse media are evoked and also, at a more abstract level, the peculiarly Chinese "sense of temporality" that imbues them with meaning and value. The imp…
Wages for Housework Redux
Wages for Housework! This demand on the part of radical feminists in the 1970s was underwritten by a critique of the role of reproductive labor for capitalist accumulation that challenged contemporary Marxist orthodoxy. Since then, this critique has advanced urgent and insightful contributions to contemporary Marxist and feminist theory. Here, I revisit its challenge to the question of value and accumulation. I argue that the call to wage reprodu…
The commune is our payable debt
This essay holds a conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva's book, Unpayable Debt. Ferreira da Silva describes Unpayable Debt as a Black feminist reading tool that stages the onto-epistemological conditions for the unrelenting persistence of the Colonial and the Racial-modalities of power and violence-in the present, in/as global capital. A major part of the work performed by Ferreira da Silva with this reading tool is the re/de/composition of…
Marx’s Critical Theory of Slavery
Marx’s critical theory of slavery is the operational subtext throughout his critique of political economy. For Marx, the movement from modern slavery to capital represents a historical transition of significance, not only (or foremost) as an empirical transition but also as a transformation of social substance. Marx reveals why, in retrospect, production based on slavery, as logical configuration, must give way to the generalising logic of wage l…
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