Rethinking Marxist approaches to transition : : a theory of temporal dislocation / / by Onur Acaroglu.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 171
• VerfasserIn: Acaroglu, Onur,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 171.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition , Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition between different societies appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical social theory. Transitions as qualitative shifts between societies are often considered as eventual historical stages, or effaced altogether. Theorising transition in a new direction, Onur Acaroglu elaborates a theory of temporal dislocation. Considering transition through a framework of out-of-joint temporalities, the notion comes through as an undervalued tendency in social reproduction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Curious Neglect of Transition in Left Theory -- 2 The Structure of the Book -- Part 1: The Theoretical Heritage: Transition in Classical and Western Marxism -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 'Poetry of the Future': Marx and the Problematic of Transition -- 1 The Primacy of Production -- 2 Production and Alienation -- 3 The Separation of the Political and the Economic -- 4 The Tasks of Social Revolution and Non-contemporaneous Contemporaneity -- 5 Communism as Positive Supersession -- 6 Marx and Transition -- 7 Towards a Theory of Transition -- 2 Interlacing of Times: the 'Althusser Effect', Temporality and Transition -- 1 Expressive Totality to Ruptural Unity: Althusser Reading Marx -- 2 Temporal Dislocation: Balibar Reading Althusser -- 3 'Revolution against 'Capital": Gramsci Reading Marx -- 4 Time of Times: Althusser Reading Gramsci -- 3 The Discursive Turn: the Post-Marxist Gramsci of Laclau and Mouffe -- 1 Class, Popular Interpellations, and Populism -- 2 Discourse and Hegemony -- 3 The Impasses of Discourse Analysis and the Melancholy of Radical Democracy -- Summary: The Marxist Transition Debate and the Notion of Plural Temporalities -- 1 Transition and Historical Materialism -- 2 Transition Problematised: Althusser, Balibar, and Gramsci -- 3 Post-Marxism: the Discursive Turn and the Disappearance of Transition -- 4 Temporality, Transition and Debates on the Left -- Part 2: Transition as Hermeneutic: the Dichotomy of Melancholy and Utopia -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4 Left Melancholy: Obstacle or Resource? -- 1 Mourning and 'Left' Melancholy -- 2 Melancholy as Obstacle -- 3 Melancholy as Resource -- 5 Through the Melancholic Impasse: Utopia -- 1 Anti-utopianism and the Neoliberal Closure of the Future -- 2 Reformulating the Utopian -- 3 Marx, Engels and Utopia -- 4 Bloch and the Not-Yet -- 5 Spatio-temporal Utopianism as Method: Harvey and Levitas -- 6 Timelessness of Utopia -- Summary: Melancholy Utopia, and Transition as a Hermeneutic -- 1 Mourning and 'Left Melancholy': Freud to Benjamin -- Part 3: Enacting Transition: Substantive Left Visions -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 6 Lineages of Postwork Theory -- 1 Antiwork Politics: the Critique of Productivism -- 2 The Autonomist Corollary -- 3 Accelerationism -- 4 Postwork Departures -- 7 Postwork: a Contemporary Left Vision -- 1 The Postwork Agenda -- 2 Postcapitalism: Mason on the Information Economy -- 3 Inventing the Future: the Post-accelerationist Techno-utopian Strain -- 4 Techno-utopian Futurity -- 8 Demands, Agency and Strategy -- 1 Postwork Demands: Non-reformist Reforms -- 2 Social Reproduction and the Agency of Transition -- 3 Organising Transition: Prefiguration after Occupy -- 4 Transition as Prefiguration -- Summary: Transitional Politics and a Prefigurative Left Vision -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.