Starting down the road to leftism: Rebels, Reds, and Radicals
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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the conjuncture
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"The conjuncture can be defined as the set of circumstances which determine the market in a given phase, provided that these are conceived of as being in the moment, i.e. as constituting a process of ever-changing combinations, a process which is the economic cycle.... Difference between 'situation' and 'conjuncture': the conjuncture is a set of immediate and ephemeral characteristics of the economic situation...Study of the conjuncture is thus more closely linked to immediate politics, to 'tactics' and agitation, while the situation relates to 'strategy' and propaganda...." (Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1971/2003, p. 177)
On this blog...
- As the unfolding research repository for Marcelo Vieta's PhD work, this blog will immerse you in my emerging thoughts on the community desires, the technological tensions, the democratic rationalizations, and the social and individual becomings of everyday life in Argentina's contemporary historical conjuncture. The emerging collection of insights, random thoughts, and experimental theoretical juxtapositions will ultimately inform my PhD dissertation on the most recent workers' control movement in Argentina. For more on me and this blog.
- Proposed doctoral dissertation project.
- The Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement in Argentina::An early essay of mine on the ERT movement in Argentina.
- Between Jul. 9 and Aug. 15, 2005, I exclusively reported on my experiences with the argentina automista project's summer internship program, Occupy, Organize, and Produce: The Factories, Streets, and Dreams. This program introduced 19 university students and activists from Canada and the US to the nascent and promising worker recovered, worker-managed workspace movement and Argentina's newest social movements since Dec. 2001. Enjoy and don't hesitate to email me with your comments.
- The beginning of my trip: What I set out to do and learn in Argentina between July 8 and August 15, 2005.
- After my trip: Reflecting on Argentina's newest social justice movements after five intense weeks of study and participation in Buenos Aires.
"Occupy, resist, produce": Worker recovered workspaces in Argentina
previous posts
- Repression returns: the Argentine government chang...
- Students, scholars and activists influenced by Her...
- My photos of Chilavert Artes Gráficas - 12 julio-1...
- Gobierno de Buenos Aires - Lista de empresas recup...
- FM La Tribu 88.7 - Buenos Aires
- Rodolfo Walsh links
- Further thoughts re: "Bosses were never fired in A...
- Bosses were never fired in Argentina
- Michael Albert explores the idea of participatory ...
- Los más nuevos movimientos sociales argentinos y l...
Affiliations
A Few Regular Reads
Argentina Links
Select Writings::A Chronology of My Thinking
- "Las empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores como cooperativas de trabajo: Una breve mirada a las cinco características que distinguen el caso argentino"
- "The Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement of Argentina: Reconstituting Working Lives"
- "On Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Politics"
- "On the "Soft Revolution'"
- "So Then, Why Is It Important to Think?"
- Herbert Marcuse’s Theory of Technological Ambivalence: From Substantive Critiques of Technology to a “Post-Technological Rationality” of Liberation
- Herbert Marcuse's Critique of Technological Rationality: An Exegetical Reading"
- "The Worker-Recovered Enterprises Movement in Argentina: Self-Management as a Potential Path to Recovering Work, Recomposing Production, and Recuperating Life"
- "Argentina's ERTs, Hugo Chavez, and 'Economies of Solidarity'"
- "Goodness - A Play by Michael Redhill"
- "My Latest Proposal for My Doctoral Research on Workers' Control in Argentina"
- "How to Begin to Think About the Formation of a New Political Consciousness in the Workers Making up the Recovered Enterprises Movement in Argentina"
- "Piqueteros Continue to Paralyze the City of Buenos Aires, Public Support Continues to Dwindle"
- "The Recovered Factory/Enterprises Movement is a Community Struggle of the Neighbourhood"
- "Witnessing the Political on the Street in Buenos Aires: Flaneuring from Avenida 9 de Julio to the Plaza de Mayo"
- "First Encounters with recovered Enterprises: Gráfica Patricios and Cefomar"
- "On Precarious Life in Argentina"
- "Asado de bienvenida: Welcoming Us to the Argentina Autonomis Project Summer Program at Chilavert"
- "Independence Day, Protest, and Hotel Bauen: Reflections on My First Full Day in Argentina (July 9, 2005)"
My Emerging Online Research
Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry
- The Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry organizes critical educational events that seek to understand how life's enclosures work. But combating against cynicism, we also inquire into creative pathways within, against, and beyond the enclosures: pathways of thinking, collaboration, organization, experimentation...
MA Thesis
- My MA work applied social interaction theory and existential phenomenology as a research paradigm for investigating Internet-mediated communication. You can download my entire thesis here::Interactions Through the Screen: The Interactional Self as a Theory for Internet-Mediated Communication:: Re-theorizing Internet sociability using phenomenology and social interaction theory.
Other Stuff
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