[lbo-talk] Hardt/Negri's Commonwealth as reviewed in WSJ

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 08:19:46 PDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Asad Haider <noswine at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> Finally, it argued that the shift in emphasis within the economy and in
> social theory from "concrete" economic and political phenomena to matters
> of
> language and communication was not a symptom of the declining importance of
> the economy, but of an historical change in the mode of production!
>
> H&N were primarily arguing that it really is a post-Fordist (I can't stand
that term) world we live in? The economy's actually shifted to emphasizing language and communication? That interpretation makes it worse than the one I couldn't take. Cranky still, -A



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