VOLUME 4(6) • 2016
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN FANTASY AND REALITY
ABSTRACT. Current attempts at climate change mitigation do not amount to physical climate change mitigation because they are trapped in a logic of commodity fetishism, which is the dominant fantasy of the utopia of money. Policy options such as cap-and-trade schemes and carbon taxes, corporate ‘stra..
SLAYING THE MONSTER CALLED CAPITAL: TEACHER-WORKER’S POTENTIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS
ABSTRACT. The paper places itself in the contemporary context of precarisation of labour and shows how in the Indian context the state is working overtime as an agent of private capital. Despite this the opposition has been weakening as collective bodies like that of teachers have been disappearing...
SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. In this paper I present the main policies of neoliberal capitalism concerning the production of knowledge arguing that the so-called ‘cognitive capitalism’ is nothing more than a characteristic feature of Late Capitalism as described by the Marxist economist Ernest Mandel. I review the cur..