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Piercing the Present with the Past

Piercing the Present with the Past This response to Tomba’s Marx’s Temporalities homes in on its critical interrogation of linear conceptions of development which have distorted Marxism’s capacity to seize the present. The article foregrounds the resources on which Tomba draws, from Walter Benjamin’s theses on history to Marx’s account of the struggles over the working day, and enlists them in an encounter with the questions of unevenness, archaism and pre-capitalism in Postcolonial theory, as well as in the attempts to ‘overcome modernity’ that marked the thought and practice of interwar fascism in Europe and Japan. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Piercing the Present with the Past

Historical Materialism , Volume 23 (4): 60 – Nov 27, 2015

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1465-4466
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1569-206X
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10.1163/1569206X-12341439
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Abstract

This response to Tomba’s Marx’s Temporalities homes in on its critical interrogation of linear conceptions of development which have distorted Marxism’s capacity to seize the present. The article foregrounds the resources on which Tomba draws, from Walter Benjamin’s theses on history to Marx’s account of the struggles over the working day, and enlists them in an encounter with the questions of unevenness, archaism and pre-capitalism in Postcolonial theory, as well as in the attempts to ‘overcome modernity’ that marked the thought and practice of interwar fascism in Europe and Japan.

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Historical MaterialismBrill

Published: Nov 27, 2015

Keywords: Capital; modernity; Postcolonial theory; time; Massimiliano Tomba

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