Wheen’s work is an easy and stimulating read and despite its errors, the author has an obvious passion for Marx. In the end, however, there is no substitute for an independent study of Das Kapital. Marx uses a dialectical approach to reveal the laws of capitalism, to bring out the contradictory sides of its basic unit, the commodity. That approach goes against the grain of the black or white, formal logic that schools and universities teach. Of course, studying Das Kapital is tough going. But we are talking about the science of political economy and not Hello! magazine.
In this groundbreaking editorial and curatorial project, more than 100 writers, artists, and philosophers rethink what politics is about. In a time of political turmoil and anticlimax, this book redefines politics as operating in the realm of things. Politics is not just an arena, a profession, or a system, but a concern for things brought to the attention of the fluid and expansive constituency of the public.
Welcome to Making Things Public
You are invited here to experience in a new way the presence of political matters. We ask you to be open-minded about the object of politics. As you will discover throughout this show, politics might not be so much about opinion as about things —things made public.
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