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Thesis Workshop: How Does Essence Appear?
I’m going to be in transit for the next couple of days, with very limited net access, and so won’t be able to respond to comments or mails. This and the next couple of thesis chapter posts have been...
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Thesis Workshop: Forms of Motion
Another thesis chapter in the series that focusses on Capital‘s third chapter. This chapter spends quite a lot of time using the new material Marx is providing to take a much closer look at the opening...
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Thesis Workshop: Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta
Now that we’ve finally escaped chapter 3 of Capital, a quick breeze through chapters 4 and 5, focussing on the imagery in chapter 4 of capital-as-Geist, and then on the impasse Marx sets up in chapter...
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Printability
The printer in my office has broken down while trying to print the current draft of my thesis. What error message is it flashing? Page 21 is too complex.
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Thesis Workshop: What a Piece of Work Is Man
Okay. Last substantive chapter of the thesis. This chapter was very difficult to write. I think it was worth the difficulty. But perhaps that’s just relief at finishing the argument… This chapter...
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Talking to Myself
I have been editing the introductory chapter of the thesis (I’ll put this online with the others soon). This morning, editing was taking place with my son bouncing up and down all around me on the...
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Thesis Workshop: Introduction – Historical Materialism and Real Abstraction
It’s a bit rough and ready, but I’ll post the working introduction to the thesis here anyway. If I keep this introduction in anything like its current form, I’ll need to make some slight modifications...
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Thesis Workshop: With What Must the Thesis Begin?
This coming Friday, I have to fulfil a mandatory pre-submission requirement for the thesis that basically involves presenting on the structure and the major claims of the thesis, and then taking...
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Thesis Completion Seminar: Update
So just a quick update that yesterday afternoon I fulfilled the requirement of holding a “successful” Thesis Completion Seminar – basically, a one-hour presentation and Q&A session which is a...
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Processing
Over the past year, I’ve found that completing my doctorate resembled a process, rather than a moment or event. I submitted early this year, but that wasn’t completion, as the thesis still needed to be...
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