NOTE: THIS COURSE REQUIRES AN APPLICATION EMAIL.
Be considerate. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT PROFESSOR BALIBAR DIRECTLY ABOUT YOUR APPLICATION.
Application Instructions:
Please send an email (must have subject line: “CPLS G4077”) to Assistant Director Sarah Monks by August 15, 2016 with the following information:
- Name
- Indicate your desire to take the course for letter grade or R-credit
- Program/Field of Study
- Year
- Relevant courses taken
- A few sentences explaining your interest in the course.
Priority will be given to graduate students and undergraduate seniors. You will be notified in August if you’ve been accepted into the course and registered by the department.
Course Bio:
The class initiates what I hope will be a collective research and discussion about what could be a “new” critique of political economy (as a theory and activity) in the post-Marxian age. It will, understandably, involve a great deal of reading or revisiting of crucial passages in Marx’s work (essentially taken in the four volumes of Das Kapital), but also comparisons with later Marxist and Non-Marxist writings. It will try to identify essential conceptual connections and their possibilities of variations, as well as limits and “points of stress” (in the terminology of David Harvey) which call for a reformulation, if not a new foundation. The Fall 2015 course was devoted to discussing the correlative functions that the categories of “labour” and “labour-power” receive in Marx’s understanding of the critique. Special attention will be paid to the problematic distinction of “productive” and “unproductive” labour, the postulates of the “reproduction” of the labour-force as a “commodity”, and the intervention of class-antagonism into the contradiction of the “essential relationship” (wage-labour).
More details about the Fall 2016 course to follow.
