Yahya M Madra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yahya M Madra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yahya M |
| FAMILY NAME | Madra |
| SIGNATURE | MADRA Y M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3902-9201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Le discours capitaliste
En prenant le mouvement entre les quatre discours de Lacan comme catégorie analytique, l’article développe un cadre pour étudier les transformations de la subjectivité capitaliste comme l’effet surdéterminé des relations (régressives ou progressives) entre les quatre discours et non comme la réalisation d’un discours isolé. Même le cinquième discours (« discours capitaliste »), dont le circuit fermé paraît bloqué par la structure dynamique des qu…
Force of the Postmodern
Decolonizing development economics
My Breath Becomes a Crimson Horse”
This extract from two interviews that took place in 2021 and 2023 with Nevhiz Tanyeli at her home in Şişli, İstanbul centers on a dialogue over her paintings, the possible interpretations of which the interviewers had discussed beforehand, informed by Bülent Küçük’s research on remembrances of Turkey during the events of 1968. Tanyeli offered both tea and counterinterpretations in her unique and witty style, with the interviewers both taken aback…
The Vulgar (in) Marxism
This essay’s exploration of the adjective “vulgar” and its function in the Marxian field begins with a debate between Abba Lerner (1903–82) and Maurice Dobb (1900–76), which foregrounded the vulgar in Marxism as a problem of economic method. The signifier thus functions as a portal to associated questions: the status of the adjective “vulgar” in Marx and Engels’s discourse; value theory’s role in the constitution of division and difference in the…
Late Neoclassical Economics and Its Modes of Negation
Despite the fact that psychoanalytical concepts are absent in Yahya M. Madra’s Late Neoclassical Economics, the three commentaries on the book, by Chakrabarti, Glynos, and Primrose, read the text in a certain psychoanalytical key, and for good reason. Their readings demonstrate that a number of unnamed psychoanalytical models silently informed the discourse analysis mobilized throughout the text. Reading late neoclassical economics as an internal…
Framing essay
Diverse economies scholarship has used a wide variety of thinking traditions to understand economic subjectivity and theorize subjects who might desire and enact postcapitalist community economies. In this chapter the authors clarify what the term ‘subject’ has come to mean in the context of a diverse, more than capitalist, economy. They introduce their concept of the ‘decentred subject’ and contrast their open-ended and anti-essentialist approac…
Rethinking Marxism
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Turkey's Decline into (Civil) War Economy
In this story of rise and (impending) fall, the quandary to be explored is how Erdoğan’s Gramscian “passive revolution” has turned into a Schmittian “sovereign dictatorship.” This conjunctural intervention highlights how Erdoğan’s vision of “corporate sovereignty,” circumscribed by the structural limitations imposed on it by international finance and the global geopolitical matrix, navigated the sequences unleashed by the two revolutionary insurr…
Neoliberal Turn in the Discipline of Economics
Democratic Economy Conference
In late 2014, a two-day conference devoted to establishing the basic principles of a democratic economy in Northern Kurdistan was held by the Democratic Society Congress in the city of Wan. The conference was organized to initiate a process of putting into practice the Kurdish movement's ecological, gender egalitarian, council communalist, socioeconomic vision. This brief note provides a sketch of the historical conjuncture of the conference and …
The direction of the movement does matter
Everyone Engages in Economic Theorizing”
This essay is a productive engagement with some of the themes brought forward by Carole Biewener and David Ruccio in their respective comments on Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian (MIT Press, 2012). This effort elucidates further some scattered discussions on subjectivity implicit throughout the book, arguing that inscribed in the very structure of the book itself are the contours of a nonreductionist, nonessentia…
The Party and Postcapitalist Politics
This essay articulates a disagreement with Jodi Dean's assessments of postcapitalist politics as initially formulated in her book, The Communist Horizon (Verso, 2012), and more recently in her conversation with Stephen Healy on “Crafting Communism” at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. Contrary to Dean's alignment of postcapitalist politics with a depoliticized individuation, this commentary argues that postcapitalist politics …
The Decimation and Displacement of Development Economics
Contemporary mainstream development economics is an overdetermined product of three historical processes: the late neoclassical turn within mainstream economic theory; transformations within the institutional-discursive matrix of development, from growth-centred policies to poverty alleviation- and good governance-oriented policies; and a broader transition from post-war Keynesian developmentalism (with its variants in the second and third worlds…
Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms
This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post‐war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post‐Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault's reading of neoliberalism as a mode of governmentality under which the social is organised through “economic incentives”, we engage with the recent discussions of neoliberal theory on th…
Enjoyment as an economic factor
Jouissance and Antagonism in the Forms of the Commune
In recent years a growing literature on biopolitical governmentality, prompted by the work of Michel Foucault, presents subjectivity as the decisive locus of both the rule of neoliberal capitalism and the production of the common. While sharing its central focus of subjectivity, we are concerned with what this literature leaves out (due to what we discern to be certain implicit tendencies of behaviorism): the constitutive role that subjective inv…
The Theory of Marxism
Vladislav Sofronov questioned a number of prominent Marxist scholars on the challenges to contemporary Marxism posed by volatile post-Soviet conditions. He seeks a way forward: away from neoliberalism, and toward a leftist consciousness that can be articulated across borders. This article publishes the responses of Fredric Jameson (during a one-on-one conversation that took place in Moscow) and of Jack Amariglio and Yahya M. Madra (on a separate …
Questions of Communism
This paper is both a critique and an affirmation of the “postmodern” Marxist debates on communism. It claims that any serious discussion of ethico-political concepts, such as exploitation and class justice, should include how subjectivity animates class. In particular, it insists that communism is predicated upon a shift at the level of subjectivity, in the very ideological coordinates that define what is just and what is unjust. Rethinking class…
From Imperialism to Transnational Capitalism
This essay offers a critical review of the 51st Venice Biennial (12 June–6 November 2005), situating it in the context of the recent history of the Venice Biennial. The review identifies a dual institutional structure (national pavilions and international survey shows) in the Venice Biennial, and argues that this constitutes a “transitional conjuncture” overdetermined by the radicalization and pluralization of art practices (performances, site-sp…
Psychoanalysis and Marxism
Encircling the Real
Globalization under interrogation
Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms
This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post‐war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post‐Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault's reading of neoliberalism as a mode of governmentality under which the social is organised through “economic incentives”, we engage with the recent discussions of neoliberal theory on th…
Turkey's Decline into (Civil) War Economy
In this story of rise and (impending) fall, the quandary to be explored is how Erdoğan’s Gramscian “passive revolution” has turned into a Schmittian “sovereign dictatorship.” This conjunctural intervention highlights how Erdoğan’s vision of “corporate sovereignty,” circumscribed by the structural limitations imposed on it by international finance and the global geopolitical matrix, navigated the sequences unleashed by the two revolutionary insurr…
Jouissance and Antagonism in the Forms of the Commune
In recent years a growing literature on biopolitical governmentality, prompted by the work of Michel Foucault, presents subjectivity as the decisive locus of both the rule of neoliberal capitalism and the production of the common. While sharing its central focus of subjectivity, we are concerned with what this literature leaves out (due to what we discern to be certain implicit tendencies of behaviorism): the constitutive role that subjective inv…
Questions of Communism
This paper is both a critique and an affirmation of the “postmodern” Marxist debates on communism. It claims that any serious discussion of ethico-political concepts, such as exploitation and class justice, should include how subjectivity animates class. In particular, it insists that communism is predicated upon a shift at the level of subjectivity, in the very ideological coordinates that define what is just and what is unjust. Rethinking class…
Democratic Economy Conference
In late 2014, a two-day conference devoted to establishing the basic principles of a democratic economy in Northern Kurdistan was held by the Democratic Society Congress in the city of Wan. The conference was organized to initiate a process of putting into practice the Kurdish movement's ecological, gender egalitarian, council communalist, socioeconomic vision. This brief note provides a sketch of the historical conjuncture of the conference and …
Decolonizing development economics
The Party and Postcapitalist Politics
This essay articulates a disagreement with Jodi Dean's assessments of postcapitalist politics as initially formulated in her book, The Communist Horizon (Verso, 2012), and more recently in her conversation with Stephen Healy on “Crafting Communism” at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. Contrary to Dean's alignment of postcapitalist politics with a depoliticized individuation, this commentary argues that postcapitalist politics …
The Decimation and Displacement of Development Economics
Contemporary mainstream development economics is an overdetermined product of three historical processes: the late neoclassical turn within mainstream economic theory; transformations within the institutional-discursive matrix of development, from growth-centred policies to poverty alleviation- and good governance-oriented policies; and a broader transition from post-war Keynesian developmentalism (with its variants in the second and third worlds…
The direction of the movement does matter
The Vulgar (in) Marxism
This essay’s exploration of the adjective “vulgar” and its function in the Marxian field begins with a debate between Abba Lerner (1903–82) and Maurice Dobb (1900–76), which foregrounded the vulgar in Marxism as a problem of economic method. The signifier thus functions as a portal to associated questions: the status of the adjective “vulgar” in Marx and Engels’s discourse; value theory’s role in the constitution of division and difference in the…
Psychoanalysis and Marxism
Globalization under interrogation
Encircling the Real
Psychoanalysis and Marxism
Questions of Communism
This paper is both a critique and an affirmation of the “postmodern” Marxist debates on communism. It claims that any serious discussion of ethico-political concepts, such as exploitation and class justice, should include how subjectivity animates class. In particular, it insists that communism is predicated upon a shift at the level of subjectivity, in the very ideological coordinates that define what is just and what is unjust. Rethinking class…
From Imperialism to Transnational Capitalism
This essay offers a critical review of the 51st Venice Biennial (12 June–6 November 2005), situating it in the context of the recent history of the Venice Biennial. The review identifies a dual institutional structure (national pavilions and international survey shows) in the Venice Biennial, and argues that this constitutes a “transitional conjuncture” overdetermined by the radicalization and pluralization of art practices (performances, site-sp…
The Theory of Marxism
Vladislav Sofronov questioned a number of prominent Marxist scholars on the challenges to contemporary Marxism posed by volatile post-Soviet conditions. He seeks a way forward: away from neoliberalism, and toward a leftist consciousness that can be articulated across borders. This article publishes the responses of Fredric Jameson (during a one-on-one conversation that took place in Moscow) and of Jack Amariglio and Yahya M. Madra (on a separate …
Enjoyment as an economic factor
Jouissance and Antagonism in the Forms of the Commune
In recent years a growing literature on biopolitical governmentality, prompted by the work of Michel Foucault, presents subjectivity as the decisive locus of both the rule of neoliberal capitalism and the production of the common. While sharing its central focus of subjectivity, we are concerned with what this literature leaves out (due to what we discern to be certain implicit tendencies of behaviorism): the constitutive role that subjective inv…
Neoliberal Reason and Its Forms
This paper offers a historically contextualised intellectual history of the entangled development of three competing post‐war economic approaches, viz the Austrian, Chicago and post‐Walrasian schools, as three forms of neoliberalism. Taking our cue from Foucault's reading of neoliberalism as a mode of governmentality under which the social is organised through “economic incentives”, we engage with the recent discussions of neoliberal theory on th…
The direction of the movement does matter
Everyone Engages in Economic Theorizing”
This essay is a productive engagement with some of the themes brought forward by Carole Biewener and David Ruccio in their respective comments on Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian (MIT Press, 2012). This effort elucidates further some scattered discussions on subjectivity implicit throughout the book, arguing that inscribed in the very structure of the book itself are the contours of a nonreductionist, nonessentia…
The Party and Postcapitalist Politics
This essay articulates a disagreement with Jodi Dean's assessments of postcapitalist politics as initially formulated in her book, The Communist Horizon (Verso, 2012), and more recently in her conversation with Stephen Healy on “Crafting Communism” at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. Contrary to Dean's alignment of postcapitalist politics with a depoliticized individuation, this commentary argues that postcapitalist politics …
The Decimation and Displacement of Development Economics
Contemporary mainstream development economics is an overdetermined product of three historical processes: the late neoclassical turn within mainstream economic theory; transformations within the institutional-discursive matrix of development, from growth-centred policies to poverty alleviation- and good governance-oriented policies; and a broader transition from post-war Keynesian developmentalism (with its variants in the second and third worlds…
Democratic Economy Conference
In late 2014, a two-day conference devoted to establishing the basic principles of a democratic economy in Northern Kurdistan was held by the Democratic Society Congress in the city of Wan. The conference was organized to initiate a process of putting into practice the Kurdish movement's ecological, gender egalitarian, council communalist, socioeconomic vision. This brief note provides a sketch of the historical conjuncture of the conference and …
Neoliberal Turn in the Discipline of Economics
Rethinking Marxism
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Turkey's Decline into (Civil) War Economy
In this story of rise and (impending) fall, the quandary to be explored is how Erdoğan’s Gramscian “passive revolution” has turned into a Schmittian “sovereign dictatorship.” This conjunctural intervention highlights how Erdoğan’s vision of “corporate sovereignty,” circumscribed by the structural limitations imposed on it by international finance and the global geopolitical matrix, navigated the sequences unleashed by the two revolutionary insurr…
Framing essay
Diverse economies scholarship has used a wide variety of thinking traditions to understand economic subjectivity and theorize subjects who might desire and enact postcapitalist community economies. In this chapter the authors clarify what the term ‘subject’ has come to mean in the context of a diverse, more than capitalist, economy. They introduce their concept of the ‘decentred subject’ and contrast their open-ended and anti-essentialist approac…
Late Neoclassical Economics and Its Modes of Negation
Despite the fact that psychoanalytical concepts are absent in Yahya M. Madra’s Late Neoclassical Economics, the three commentaries on the book, by Chakrabarti, Glynos, and Primrose, read the text in a certain psychoanalytical key, and for good reason. Their readings demonstrate that a number of unnamed psychoanalytical models silently informed the discourse analysis mobilized throughout the text. Reading late neoclassical economics as an internal…
My Breath Becomes a Crimson Horse”
This extract from two interviews that took place in 2021 and 2023 with Nevhiz Tanyeli at her home in Şişli, İstanbul centers on a dialogue over her paintings, the possible interpretations of which the interviewers had discussed beforehand, informed by Bülent Küçük’s research on remembrances of Turkey during the events of 1968. Tanyeli offered both tea and counterinterpretations in her unique and witty style, with the interviewers both taken aback…
The Vulgar (in) Marxism
This essay’s exploration of the adjective “vulgar” and its function in the Marxian field begins with a debate between Abba Lerner (1903–82) and Maurice Dobb (1900–76), which foregrounded the vulgar in Marxism as a problem of economic method. The signifier thus functions as a portal to associated questions: the status of the adjective “vulgar” in Marx and Engels’s discourse; value theory’s role in the constitution of division and difference in the…
Force of the Postmodern
Decolonizing development economics
Le discours capitaliste
En prenant le mouvement entre les quatre discours de Lacan comme catégorie analytique, l’article développe un cadre pour étudier les transformations de la subjectivité capitaliste comme l’effet surdéterminé des relations (régressives ou progressives) entre les quatre discours et non comme la réalisation d’un discours isolé. Même le cinquième discours (« discours capitaliste »), dont le circuit fermé paraît bloqué par la structure dynamique des qu…
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