Jason Read
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3940593 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jason Read |
| PRENOMES | Jason |
| SOBRENOME | Read |
| ASSINATURA | READ J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southern Maine |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6149-0094 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 354 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Étienne Balibar and Patrice Maniglier, La Terre ou le Monde
The dynamics of sub-national leadership and rapport in transnational partnership working
This paper discusses experiences of sub-national (place) leadership in transnational partnership working. It explores transnational collaboration between two twinned cities: Birmingham (UK) and Leipzig (Germany). Using semi-structured interviews with sub-national leaders, we examine enabling factors and barriers facing transnational partnership working over three decades in the context of changing national and regional partnership environments. T…
Theory of Philosophy or Philosophy of Theory
This essay reviews Fredric Jameson's book The Years of Theory, which is the publication of a seminar that Jameson gave at Duke University. The review examines Jameson's attempt to provide a history of theory as an interdisciplinary intellectual movement encompassing philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, and literary studies in France in the second half of the twentieth century. Of particular importance is the way in which Jameson charts the hist…
Marx with Spinoza
A provocative study of the intersection of Spinoza and Marx that shows how their respective philosophies engage overlapping questions and problems Offers the first translation of Fischbach’s work, and the most important book published in France on Spinoza and Marx, into English Pairs these philosophers of production who are both critical philosophers of subjectivity Presents a major study of the points of intersection in the thought of Spinoza an…
Fighting for Exploitation As If It Were Rebellion
In the Theological-Political Treatise, published in 1670, Spinoza asked why people “fight for their servitude as if for salvation.” In doing so, he foregrounded the affective dimension of despotism, putting forward the idea that servitude is not just passively endured but passionately strived for—something people want and will. Three hundred years later, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari repeated this formula in Anti-Oedipus, arguing that it was …
Le concept de mode de production
Le « mode de production » est généralement considéré comme la pierre angulaire de la conception marxienne de la société et de l’histoire. Chaque société se comprend comme un mode de production spécifique, constitué d’une base et d’une superstructure — l’articulation d’activités économiques et du droit, de la politique et de la culture — et chaque période de l’histoire (primitive, antique, asiatique, féodale et capitaliste) se définit par son mode…
The Affective Economy
A Universal History of Contingency
A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus
En attendant les robots
L’année 2020 a vu la parution de deux livres remarquablement similaires : Automation and the Future of Work d’Aaron Benanav et Smart Machines and Service Work de Jason E. Smith. Sans couvrir exactement le même terrain, les deux livres se chevauchent trop pour qu’on puisse provoquer un débat entre eux. Il est mieux alors de les appréhender ensemble, non pour leur charge commune contre des idées fantaisistes sur l’automation, mais pour la manière d…
The Production of Subjectivity
"Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction animate and inform philosophers from Theodor Adorno to Paolo Virno. While also examining the way in which reading Marx casts new light on such philosophers as Spinoza. At the centre of this tran…
Conscious Organs
In Volume Three of Capital in a striking but somewhat uncharacteristic formula, Marx argues that the labor relation is the “hidden basis” of the entire social edifice including the state and politics. As an attempt to clarify and develop this insight I examine the dual nature of labor as abstract and concrete labor, arguing that the two sides of labor correspond not just to two sides of the commodity, but to different ethics and alienations of la…
Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis
What is the "anthropos," humanity of the Anthropocene? In many ways this would seem to be beside the point; the point is not how humanity is defined, but charting its massive effects on the planet. However, conceptions of the Anthropocene end up answering the question of humanity, albeit obliquely. These answers end up duplicating what Jason W. Moore refers to as Cartesian dualism, placing humanity on the side of either nature or society. What th…
The Politics of Transindividuality
The Politics of Transindividuality re-examines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with politics and economics, philosophical speculation and political practice. While the term transindividuality is drawn from the work of Gilbert Simondon, this book views it broadly, examining such canon…
Under Pressure
Yves Citton’s Renverser l’insoutenable is both a thorough critique of the current conjuncture and an attempt to construct a politics to reverse it. With respect to the former, Citton outlines the various ways in which the present should be considered unsustainable, ecologically, economically, politically, psychically, and through its various technological mediations. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Citton proposes a politics that can over…
Relations of Production
Simondon’s concept of the transindividual has become a central point of reference for contemporary critical philosophy and social philosophy. Despite its importance in the work of such writers as Étienne Balibar, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler and Paolo Virno, Simondon’s works have not been translated into English, and thus no comprehensive study has appeared so far. Muriel Combes’s book presents not only a study of Simondon’s thought, but an e…
Politics of Transindividuality
Reading the Tendencies
Reading the Tendencies Jason Read (bio) A review of Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War. Durham: Duke UP, 2013. Warren Montag has one of the most thankless jobs in contemporary academia. He is the Anglophone world’s best reader of Althusser, which makes him an expert on a philosopher considered at best a vanishing mediator between the oeuvre of Marx and the works of Foucault, Zizek, Badiou, et cetera, and a…
Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Cambridge, MA
Commonwealth is the third book co-authored by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. As with the previous two books, Empire and Multitude , the task of this book is to both critique the present order and provide the concepts for a radical transformation of that order. This review examines how this third, and final book in the series, changes the argument of the other two, specifically examining the rôle that the concept of the common plays in restructu…
The Production of Subjectivity
The current conjuncture is marked by a fundamental impasse in terms of how to engage the question of politics. This is in part due to the fact that the various figures through which one engages with politics--the citizen, worker, or militant--have become exhausted of their meaning; the citizen has been replaced by the interest group, the worker by the investor in his or her own human capital, and the militant by the terrorist. As Alain Badiou wri…
The Finite Dialectic
The Finite Dialectic Jason Read (bio) Review of John Grant, Dialectics and Contemporary Politics: Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism. New York: Routledge, 2011. In recent years there have been a slew of publications dealing with the relationship between post-structuralism and Marx. It could be argued that these works follow the lead of Derrida’s Specters of Marx and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire, each of which …
The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual
By most accounts Deleuze's engagement with Marx begins with the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia he co-authored with Félix Guattari. However, Deleuze's Difference and Repetition alludes to a connection between Deleuze's critique of common sense and Marx's theory of fetishism, suggesting a connection between the critique of the image of thought and the critique of capital. By tracing this connection from its emergence in the early texts…
A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus
This article examines Michel Foucault's critical investigation of neoliberalism in the course published as Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France, 1978-1979. Foucault's lectures are interrogated along two axes. First, examining the way in which neoliberalism can be viewed as a particular production of subjectivity, as a way in which individuals are constituted as subjects of "human capital." Secondly, Foucault's analyses is augm…
The micro-politics of capital
Experimental Politics
celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's in English that fully exemplifies the unique synthesis of sociology, activist research, and theoretical innov…
A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus
This article examines Michel Foucault's critical investigation of neoliberalism in the course published as Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France, 1978-1979. Foucault's lectures are interrogated along two axes. First, examining the way in which neoliberalism can be viewed as a particular production of subjectivity, as a way in which individuals are constituted as subjects of "human capital." Secondly, Foucault's analyses is augm…
Philosophy of the Encounter
Primitive Accumulation
(2002). Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 24-49
The Order and Connection of Ideas
This essay examines the “turn to Spinoza” by contemporary Marxist philosophers, arguing that far from being a scholastic exercise, the turn to Spinoza furthers and resolves problems of Marxist philosophy. Specifically this essay argues that Pierre Macherey's research on Spinoza furthers the project of outlining the materialist understanding of philosophy initiated by Karl Marx's critique in The German Ideology of the supposed autonomy of philosop…
The Hidden Abode of Biopolitical Production
The Production of Subjectivity
"Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction animate and inform philosophers from Theodor Adorno to Paolo Virno. While also examining the way in which reading Marx casts new light on such philosophers as Spinoza. At the centre of this tran…
Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis
What is the "anthropos," humanity of the Anthropocene? In many ways this would seem to be beside the point; the point is not how humanity is defined, but charting its massive effects on the planet. However, conceptions of the Anthropocene end up answering the question of humanity, albeit obliquely. These answers end up duplicating what Jason W. Moore refers to as Cartesian dualism, placing humanity on the side of either nature or society. What th…
Colloquium on African Law, London, June, 1961
In addition to the general discussions, opportunity was taken for special consultations with linguists at the School of Oriental and African Studies: sessions were held with them to consider problems firstly in legal translations in Africa, and secondly in interpreting in the administration of the law
Conference on Integration of Customary and Modern Legal Systems
This conference, under the direction of Dr A. N. Allott of the University of London, was an outstanding success and marked a real development in the consideration of the subject. About half the participants, who numbered just under 40, were from universities in Africa, U.S.A., and Europe; the others were mainly from the government or the judiciary of various African countries. The annual general meeting of the International African Law Associatio…
The Antagonistic Ground of Constitutive Power
labor: labor that produces value. The foundation of this subordination is the division between labor as abstract labor, defined as that which creates value, and all other activities, which are given the negative definition of “nonwork” or nonproductive work (this includes housework and all other labor defined as nonproductive). As Hardt and Negri write, “If labor is the basis of value, then value is equally the basis of labor. What counts as labo…
The Hidden Abode of Biopolitical Production
Primitive Accumulation
(2002). Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 24-49
Micro-Politics of Capital, The
From the Proletariat to the Multitude
From the Proletariat to the Multitude: Multitude and Political Subjectivity Jason Read (bio) Review of: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. New York: Penguin, 2004. Where Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s first book, Empire, defined an object of critique—the book’s title is also their name for the global order they seek to analyze—their follow-up, Multitude, attempts the more difficult project of id…
The Order and Connection of Ideas
This essay examines the “turn to Spinoza” by contemporary Marxist philosophers, arguing that far from being a scholastic exercise, the turn to Spinoza furthers and resolves problems of Marxist philosophy. Specifically this essay argues that Pierre Macherey's research on Spinoza furthers the project of outlining the materialist understanding of philosophy initiated by Karl Marx's critique in The German Ideology of the supposed autonomy of philosop…
Philosophy of the Encounter
The Age of Cynicism
The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual
By most accounts Deleuze's engagement with Marx begins with the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia he co-authored with Félix Guattari. However, Deleuze's Difference and Repetition alludes to a connection between Deleuze's critique of common sense and Marx's theory of fetishism, suggesting a connection between the critique of the image of thought and the critique of capital. By tracing this connection from its emergence in the early texts…
A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus
This article examines Michel Foucault's critical investigation of neoliberalism in the course published as Naissance de la biopolitique: Cours au Collège de France, 1978-1979. Foucault's lectures are interrogated along two axes. First, examining the way in which neoliberalism can be viewed as a particular production of subjectivity, as a way in which individuals are constituted as subjects of "human capital." Secondly, Foucault's analyses is augm…
The Production of Subjectivity
The current conjuncture is marked by a fundamental impasse in terms of how to engage the question of politics. This is in part due to the fact that the various figures through which one engages with politics--the citizen, worker, or militant--have become exhausted of their meaning; the citizen has been replaced by the interest group, the worker by the investor in his or her own human capital, and the militant by the terrorist. As Alain Badiou wri…
The Finite Dialectic
The Finite Dialectic Jason Read (bio) Review of John Grant, Dialectics and Contemporary Politics: Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism. New York: Routledge, 2011. In recent years there have been a slew of publications dealing with the relationship between post-structuralism and Marx. It could be argued that these works follow the lead of Derrida’s Specters of Marx and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire, each of which …
Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Cambridge, MA
Commonwealth is the third book co-authored by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. As with the previous two books, Empire and Multitude , the task of this book is to both critique the present order and provide the concepts for a radical transformation of that order. This review examines how this third, and final book in the series, changes the argument of the other two, specifically examining the rôle that the concept of the common plays in restructu…
Reading the Tendencies
Reading the Tendencies Jason Read (bio) A review of Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War. Durham: Duke UP, 2013. Warren Montag has one of the most thankless jobs in contemporary academia. He is the Anglophone world’s best reader of Althusser, which makes him an expert on a philosopher considered at best a vanishing mediator between the oeuvre of Marx and the works of Foucault, Zizek, Badiou, et cetera, and a…
Relations of Production
Simondon’s concept of the transindividual has become a central point of reference for contemporary critical philosophy and social philosophy. Despite its importance in the work of such writers as Étienne Balibar, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler and Paolo Virno, Simondon’s works have not been translated into English, and thus no comprehensive study has appeared so far. Muriel Combes’s book presents not only a study of Simondon’s thought, but an e…
Politics of Transindividuality
The Politics of Transindividuality
The Politics of Transindividuality re-examines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with politics and economics, philosophical speculation and political practice. While the term transindividuality is drawn from the work of Gilbert Simondon, this book views it broadly, examining such canon…
Under Pressure
Yves Citton’s Renverser l’insoutenable is both a thorough critique of the current conjuncture and an attempt to construct a politics to reverse it. With respect to the former, Citton outlines the various ways in which the present should be considered unsustainable, ecologically, economically, politically, psychically, and through its various technological mediations. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Citton proposes a politics that can over…
Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis
What is the "anthropos," humanity of the Anthropocene? In many ways this would seem to be beside the point; the point is not how humanity is defined, but charting its massive effects on the planet. However, conceptions of the Anthropocene end up answering the question of humanity, albeit obliquely. These answers end up duplicating what Jason W. Moore refers to as Cartesian dualism, placing humanity on the side of either nature or society. What th…
Conscious Organs
In Volume Three of Capital in a striking but somewhat uncharacteristic formula, Marx argues that the labor relation is the “hidden basis” of the entire social edifice including the state and politics. As an attempt to clarify and develop this insight I examine the dual nature of labor as abstract and concrete labor, arguing that the two sides of labor correspond not just to two sides of the commodity, but to different ethics and alienations of la…
The Affective Economy
A Universal History of Contingency
A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus
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