<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>(mass)think!</title>
	<atom:link href="http://massthink.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>thought of nomads and Statesmen, Empire and axes of difference, libidinal-political literatures</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:51:53 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<cloud domain='massthink.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/cb96bc6e0d5bc02029d343d4ba11f332?s=96&#038;d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>(mass)think!</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
			<item>
		<title>What is Philosophy, Benjamin?</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/what-is-philosophy-benjamin/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/what-is-philosophy-benjamin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Il(unconscious)logical Arguer/Rhetor/Magician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kritiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosoph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phänomen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientific Object]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth-Teller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concept]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemplative Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immanence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectualization/Rationalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phenomenology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surface/Appearance/Phenomenon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin begins The Origin of German Tragic Drama with an “epistemo-critical prologue” in which, before he presents his idea of the baroque, he articulates his conception of philosophy, the activity by which he represents ideas and conceptualizes phenomena (such as the baroque).[1] Benjamin does this by charting a dichotomy, in which he situates philosophy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=909&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/what-is-philosophy-benjamin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://massthink.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/benjamin1.jpg?w=197" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Benjamin</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Materiality of Discourses on Decolonization</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/materiality-of-discourses-on-decolonization/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/materiality-of-discourses-on-decolonization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il(unconscious)logical Arguer/Rhetor/Magician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kritiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Révolutionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[(Ego)Centrism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonialism/Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coloniality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decolonization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Mignolo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Pintura of Chimalhuacán-Atoyac, an Amerindian "map"]
Walter Mignolo’s The Darker Side of the Renaissance explores different practices of representation/expression (literature, history, cartography) and the way in which in their respective registers (language, memory, space) they have been shaped and utilized by the imperial power (Europe, Spain in particular) for its colonizing project (of the Americas).[1] [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=903&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/materiality-of-discourses-on-decolonization/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://massthink.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pintura-chimalhuacan-atoyac.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Pintura Chimalhuacán-Atoyac</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Zone of Social Abandonment, Constructed, (In)Visible</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/zone-of-social-abandonment-constructed-invisible/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/zone-of-social-abandonment-constructed-invisible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Act(ethical)r]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bandwagon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mensch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[(Neo)liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Normalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alain Badiou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power/Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apparatus/Institution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[João Biehl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disease]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[João Biehl and Catarina in Vita; image by Torben Eskerod from the book]
There is a place outside of Porto Alegre in Brazil where families leave behind “undesirable members” (14) (mostly sick) to wait for their death. It is called Vita, what João Biehl, in an ethnographic work, describes as a “zone of social abandonment.” Zones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=897&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/zone-of-social-abandonment-constructed-invisible/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://massthink.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/vita.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Vita</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Long Hiatus Ended&#8211;to protest!</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/long-hiatus-ended-to-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/long-hiatus-ended-to-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ijunkie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dissent/Protest/Defiance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan/Aless]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a looong time since I last posted something here. Partly because I took a break (from writing, at least), partly because I had to move to my new settlement for the next few years (beautiful SoCal). To restart another period of (hopefully prolific) activity, I significantly revised the profile page of (mass)think! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=874&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/long-hiatus-ended-to-protest/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>In Between and Outside, Difference and Dialectics</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/in-between-and-outside-difference-and-dialectics/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/in-between-and-outside-difference-and-dialectics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bandwagon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colored]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GayBoy!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il(unconscious)logical Arguer/Rhetor/Magician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kritiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nomad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosoph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Révolutionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antagonism/Conflict/Opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Between/Milieu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color/Ethnicity/Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dialectics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monstrosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan/Aless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacrifice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shifter/Chameleon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singular/Molecular/Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tradition/Custom/Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncanny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Export/Assimilation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Some of the PhD programs I applied to wanted to know more about my person and how it has shaped the kind of work that I do. This is the statement of “personal history and philosophy” I wrote in addition to the “purpose of study.”]
I was born in cosmopolitan Manila, capital of the Philippines, between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=856&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/in-between-and-outside-difference-and-dialectics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Studying the Cultural Libidinal-Political Economy</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/studying-the-cultural-libidinal-political-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/studying-the-cultural-libidinal-political-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bandwagon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bibliophile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colored]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Désirant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GayBoy!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il(unconscious)logical Arguer/Rhetor/Magician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kritiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosoph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Révolutionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonialism/Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coloniality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experimentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.W.F. Hegel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Deleuze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intertextuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Heidegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michel Foucault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poststructuralism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan/Aless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Third World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[A revised version of the “purpose of study” I sent out when applying for the PhD, written with the feedback of professors, friends, and family]
I have taken a long and unusual route to decide what kind of work to do for the PhD. Partly this is due to my Third World background. Focused on financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=845&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/studying-the-cultural-libidinal-political-economy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Spontaneous Generation and Capitalist Capture</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/spontaneous-generation-and-capitalist-capture/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/spontaneous-generation-and-capitalist-capture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il(unconscious)logical Arguer/Rhetor/Magician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kritiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosoph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Révolutionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Actual(ization)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alienation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Gramsci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Negri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assemblage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Complexity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ricardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fetishism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Deleuze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Schufreider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intensive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Protevi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lines of Flight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Althusser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moishe Postone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primitive Accumulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan/Aless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stratification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surplus Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Territorialization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valorization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished and defended my thesis for my MA in Philosophy. I wrote about surplus value in economics, Marx, and Deleuze. Here&#8217;s the introduction:
In his critique of political economy from the Grundrisse to Capital, Karl Marx presupposes abstraction and quantification. The process by which activity and its product are alienated from the human worker, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=836&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/spontaneous-generation-and-capitalist-capture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Strange Realities</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/strange-realities/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/strange-realities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accomplice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bandwagon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Il(unconscious)logical Arguer/Rhetor/Magician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kritiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mensch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[(Neo)liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ricardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Paulson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Waxman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Summers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Althusser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milton Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Rubin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Geithner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished teaching Marx in class today. We had started out with his philosophy where I traced Marx’s intellectual development (in the context of Hegel and Feuerbach) and the historical materialist method that he developed (I offered a schematic and a narrative based on a Deleuzian flat ontology made possible by Heidegger’s notion of mode). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=803&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/strange-realities/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/55-A1-D3MR0/2.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marx&#8217;s Method: Narrative</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/marxs-method-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/marxs-method-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Languaged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mensch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NaturMensch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosoph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phänomen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Révolutionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antagonism/Conflict/Opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contradiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Division of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[False Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narrative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Need]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reproduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schema/Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stratification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Univocal Ontology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After Marx has laid out the model spatially, he repeats the gesture, as if to say, “Again, again, again . . . Let’s do it again.” But differently, in another way:

[Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory]
Model 2: “Narrative”
Human beings, first of all (before they are even “able to ‘make history’”), “live” (the first circumstance) (181). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=739&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/marxs-method-narrative/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://massthink.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dali-the-persistence-of-memory.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">dali-the-persistence-of-memory</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marx’s Method: Schematic</title>
		<link>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/marxs-method-schematic/</link>
		<comments>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/marxs-method-schematic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan/Aless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artisan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joueur de Pouvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mensch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosoph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praxis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Révolutionnaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[État]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Gramsci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Base/Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dialectics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Division of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[False Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feudalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flat Ontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Engels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Deleuze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idealism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Althusser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Heidegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schema/Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superstructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Univocal Ontology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://massthink.wordpress.com/?p=718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Karl Marx (with Friedrich Engels) lays out his method of revolutionary critique in The German Ideology. Not a professional philosopher (like Kant and Hegel, or Feuerbach) and more like an intellectual journalist absorbed in political economy committed to the Revolution, Marx, drawing from the philosophical currents of his day (Hegel’s idealism and Feuerbach’s materialism), nonetheless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=massthink.wordpress.com&blog=1121278&post=718&subd=massthink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://massthink.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/marxs-method-schematic/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0802156d16ea294e0791b00caa0cf2b2?s=96&#38;d=monsterid" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ryan/Aless</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://massthink.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/rembrandt-philosopher-in-meditation.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rembrandt-philosopher-in-meditation</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>