Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores deep areas of semiotics, joined with economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and political science, even Franz Kafka's literary works. These are communicated by entries, based primarily on Gleicher’s actual blog Looking through the crack from 2013 to 2017. One might equate it to impressionist art, or the 'the one and the many'. Each entry is independent; nothing in one makes even an allusion to another. In reading, however, the reader will make connections and develop their own understandings of dystopian possibilities.
Publication date: January 8, 2019
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Summer Before the War
1 Industrializing Capital: Classic Works of the Twentieth Century
Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation
Adolph Berle's & Gardener Means' The Modern Corporation & Private Property
The Conclusion of Marcel Mauss's The Gift
The Great Failure of 20th Century Economists
2 Corresponding Thoughts of Benjamin: Kafka, Bakhtin and the Prague School
The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy
Shapes of Time
Semiotics of the Social: Karcevskij's Principle and the Imaginary Community
Keys to Kafka's Castle, a Guideline for the Innocent Reader
3 On the Fringe
Liberal Keynesianism and Modern Money Theory (MMT)
The Pope and a Respected Orthodox Economist
Keynes and CH Douglas
Might This be Done?
4 Archaic Money
Barter Exchange and Gift-giving
Corrupt Gift-giving
Nexum and Mancipium
5 Life-needs and Money Sequences, Outside or Inside a Sealed Vessel
Value Reduction
Contemporary Banking & Finance
Culture of Liquidation
Costa Lapavitsas' Profiting Without Production
Atavistic Critique
Maurizio Lazzarato's Making of the Indebted Man
6 Life as a Baby Boomer
Red Diaper Baby
Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf Revisited
Counterculture of Walter Benjamin
George Orwell's 1984
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Evaporation of the Sixties
7 Financialization of the Universities
Nicholas Kristof on Knowledge and Deep Learning
A Brief History of Adelphi
The Edifice Complex
8 Identity Politics
Working Families Party: Is It the Moment? (May 2014)
Resistance on All Sides (September 2014)
Because I Am a Neurosurgeon
The Story of Rachel Dolezal
Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Clintons' Fusion of Parties
Self-identification Against Democratic Socialism
MLK and the Clintons
References
Index