----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Winslow" <egwinslow at home.com>
> Ian Murray wrote:
>
> > there are serious intimations of
> > non-linearity in Marx, especially 'Grundrisse'
>
> The Grundrisse records, even more obviously than Capital itself,
Marx's
> adoption from Hegel of the ontological idea of social relations as
"internal
> relations" in a form that means that, as relations change, the
identities of
> related things will not be maintained to the degree required for
algebraic -
> linear or non-linear - representation.
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Well, there are rigorous logic[s] of non-identity and the above does sort of presume that Hegel's--and Whitehead's-- notions of on IR internal relations are the final word on the issue. For an excellent take on possible alternatives see Carol Gould's wonderful 'Rethinking Democracy.' Also take a look at Francisco Varela's 'The Principles of Biological Autonomy' and Michael Conrad's 'The Price of Programmability' in 'The Universal Turing Machine: A Half Century Survey' edited by Rolf Herken.
Ian