This article traces feminist filmmaking lineages from the New German Cinema into the twenty-first century via Margarethe von Trotta's feature-length biopics. Conceptually, the article rethinks ...feminist authorship in response to twenty-first-century subject-critical frameworks, such as new materialism, Deleuzian philosophy, and actor-network theory. Connecting the third of these to feminist and queer performance studies and contemporary phenomenology, I propose a model of nonsovereign authorship that challenges traditional humanist (masculinist) conceptions of agency by emphasizing conditions and affordances of human embodiment and network entanglement. Importantly, this nonsovereignty does not void questions of intersectional feminist ethics and politics. Hannah Arendts focus on the Eichmann controversy and Arendt's relationship with Martin Heidegger together facilitate layered reflections on embodiment, agency, and ethics on the diegetic level. On the level of production, von Trotta's long-term collaborations with Barbara Sukowa and Pamela Katz allow me to apply the concept of networked authorship to the legacies of second-wave feminist theory and practice.
El texto que se presenta es un homenaje en forma de crítica al libro. La acumulación del capital de Rosa Luxemburg. La posición que aquí se sostiene es que la autora no solo yerra a la hora de ...criticar a Marx, tal como ya se le ha criticado intensamente, también sostiene una teoría incompatible con el desarrollo de este y con la propia lógica de acumulación capitalista. En concreto, identifica las producciones campesinas de la periferia como externas a la totalidad que es el modo de producción capitalista. Con ello da una explicación del imperialismo y del colapso del capitalismo que no consigue reproducir la dinámica inmanente del capital. Un similar proceder se le achaca a David Harvey en lo que se refiere al concepto de “acumulación por desposesión” que este acuña.
The paper examines the actuality of Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or revolution 150 years after her birth. The main method used is the content analysis of this important polemical pamphlet placed in the ...context of the time/space, i.e. when and where it was written, on the one hand, and today, on the other. The main finding is that Rosa's work has remained relevant to our days since the capitalist mode of production is still characterized by internal contradictions producing barbaric consequences of exploitation and imperialist wars. These capitalist system's conse- quences ensure the permanent actuality of the dilemma between socialism and barbarism confronted by Rosa Luxemburg throughout her life.
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Herbaria are important tools in botanical documentation for verifying species distribution and past occurrence. In addition to their scientific value, some herbaria, ...especially those collected by iconic historic figures such as the radical socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, can increase public interest in plant diversity and conservation by building a positive narrative with plants. Throughout her life, R. Luxemburg remained passionate for botany and started collecting plants in 1913 until her assassination in 1919, amassing a private herbarium that she cherished. This unique collection, which was thought to be lost, has since been rediscovered and is currently deposited in the Archive of Modern Records in Warsaw, Poland.
Herbaria are important tools in botanical documentation for verifying species distribution and past occurrence. In addition to their scientific value, some herbaria, especially those collected by iconic historic figures such as the radical socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, can increase public interest in plant diversity and conservation by building a positive narrative with plants. Throughout her life, R. Luxemburg remained passionate for botany and started collecting plants in 1913 until her assassination in 1919, amassing a private herbarium that she cherished. This unique collection, which was thought to be lost, has since been rediscovered and is currently deposited in the Archive of Modern Records in Warsaw, Poland.
Pour contrecarrer ces tendances irréversibles à la dévalorisation, les forces du capital n'ont d'autre issue que de dégrader toujours davantage les conditions d'existence des salariés, et de ravager ...également toujours un peu plus la nature (point sur lequel Marx et Engels avaient beaucoup insisté), destruction d'autant plus facile à réaliser que le capital s'est mondialisé. Car ce n'est que le capital industriel qui est en mesure de créer de la plus-value, du surproduit, alors que le capital improductif (capital commercial et capital financier) lui, ne s'inscrit que dans le cadre de la circulation. Après avoir rappelé que la plus-value doit se répartir entre différentes branches de capitaux, l'auteur examine ces différents facteurs, lesquels vont du très haut degré de technicité atteint par le capital fixe - imputable au progrès scientifique et technique - au ralentissement de la productivité, conduisant les capitalistes à jouer soit sur le prolongement de la durée du travail, soit en abaissant le salaire (la paupérisation du salariat), soit encore sur l'extension mondiale du capitalisme dans les zones encore dominées par ce qui était appelé autrefois dans la littérature marxisante, la petite production marchande (l'ultime moyen étant de recourir à la destruction du capital par le biais de la guerre).
I am grateful to Shalini Satkunanandan for her thoughtful review of Political Responsibility. It raises important questions that I can only touch upon briefly.
The recent and very useful edition of Rosa Luxemburg’s economic works compiled by Peter Hudis (The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg) left out one essay: her review of the first volume of Karl Marx’s ...Theories of Surplus Value, edited by Karl Kautsky in 1905. While book reviews are nowadays a minor genre usually limited to a short length, that was not the case when Luxemburg wrote her essay: her review – published in Vorwärts, the daily of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), just before the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1905 – was extensive and dealt with a variety of theoretical and political issues. We offer the first critical edition in English of this work, setting it against the background of Rosa Luxemburg’s previous works and of the revisionist controversy within the SPD and the Second International, as well as contextualizing it within the framework of contemporary polemics with bourgeois economics, particularly with the German historical school and with marginalism. We also offer a comparison between the methodological issues raised by Luxemburg in her review and those raised by Rudolf Hilferding in his review of the third and last volume of Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value, published in 1911. We close with a brief assessment of the place of Luxemburg’s essay in the later development of her economic thought, concluding with The Accumulation of Capital, published in 1913.
In an era where internationalism is on the retreat in the Western world, a modified version of Rosa Luxemburg’s thinking about internationalism can serve as a useful guide for those concerned about ...relations between peoples in different countries. Luxemburg contributes to existing internationalist, cosmopolitan and transnational approaches by offering a unique set of answers to questions about the appropriate ethics, political project and tools to be adopted. Her ethical stance of the universal worth of all people was informed both by a deep sense of empathy and her theoretical analysis of capitalism. She believed that citizens had a duty to hold their governments accountable for foreign policy and that the world formed a single system and community. The political project was one of radical transformation and equality. European nations faced the option of transforming into more egalitarian and peaceful societies or descending into barbarism. Central to this transformation was a constant struggle against militarism and imperialism. Key tools for transformation included mass mobilisation, vibrant democratic debate and revolutionary reform of the political system. Problematic aspects of Luxemburg’s internationalism that require revision include her insensitivity to the importance of national identity and Eurocentrism.
Con el objetivo de mostrar la relevancia y actualidad de la obra teórica de Rosa Luxemburg, el artículo analiza tres de sus temáticas fundamentales. En primer lugar, su crítica a la deriva reformista ...de la socialdemocracia contra su original intención revolucionaria, confirmada en su validez por la evolución del capitalismo. En conexión con ello, su tesis de que la posibilidad de la realización de la democracia se encuentra estrictamente vinculada al proyecto revolucionario. Y, por último, su reivindicación de que la existencia de dicho proyecto depende de que el proletariado adquiera un conocimiento teórico sobre el funcionamiento del capitalismo que debe serle transmitido por el partido revolucionario.
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