Public Sector Work Re: Deleuze & Guattari, Zizek on Arendt (More from Brennan)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 3:25 AM +1100 1/27/03, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>  > >For eg, it is possible for me to, in a whole range of ways,
>>  >negotiate myself out of (b) and to variously reconfigure what (a) is or
>>  >implies. I have to say, any version of Marxism that wanted to pretend my
>>  >current work had the same relation to "capital" or "profit" as making
>>  >sandwiches for a living would be a pretty useless political perspective.
>>
>>  I don't see how you can reasonably arrive at that conclusion. Your
>>  relationship to capital is that you don't own it.
>
>It's not, "capital" isn't, that simple.
>There are kinds of capital I now do command -- I take it with me, 
>regardless of who employs me, or even if I was not empoyed -- they 
>just aren't defined expressly by "profit".

The university for which you work is a public university, not a 
private one, right?  In that case, your relation to capital is 
essentially the same as any other public school teachers' (and civil 
servants' in general, for that matter).
-- 
Yoshie

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