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elektrokardiogrammatology:

“…since one case of use-value can be that of the worker wishing to consume the (affect of the) work itself, that necessary possibility renders indeterminate the ‘materialist’ predication of the subject as labor-power or super-adequation as calibrated and organized by the logic of capital. In terms of that necessarily possible ‘special case,’ this predication can no longer be seen as the excess of surplus labor over socially necessary labor. The question of affectively necessary labor brings in the attendant question of desire and thus questions in yet another way the mere philosophical justice of capital logic without necessarily shifting into utopian idealism.

If a view of affectively necessary labor (as possible within the present state of socialized consumer capitalism) as labor as such is proposed without careful attention to the international division of labor, its fate may be mere political avant-gardism…The concept of socially necessary labor is based on an identification of subsistence and reproduction. Necessary labor is the amount of labor required by the worker to ‘reproduce’ himself in order to remain optimally useful for capital in terms of the current price-structure. Now if the dynamics of the birth-growth-family-life reproduction is given as much attention as, let us say, the relationship between fixed and variable capitals in their several moments, the ‘materialist’ predication of the subject as labor-power is rendered indeterminate in another way, without therefore being ‘refuted’ by varieties of utopianism and ‘idealism.’ This expansion of the textuality of value has often gone unrecognized by feminists as well as mainstream Marxists, when they are caught within hegemonic positivism or orthodox dialectics. They have sometimes tried to close off the expansion, by considering it as an opposition (between Marxism and feminism), or by way of inscribing, in a continuist spirit, the socializing or ideology-forming functions of the family as direct means of producing the worker and thus involved in the circuit of the production of surplus-value for the capitalist. They have also tried to legitimize domestic labor within capital logic. Most of these positions arise from situational exigencies…That these closing off gestures are situationally admirable is evident from the practical difficulty of offering alternatives to them.”

“Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value”, Spivak

racismschool:

It’s time to take a few words back from the ignorant mouths of those that applaud injustice.

1-Victim. Victim is not a bad word. Stop using it as if it were a negative. The entire point of the word is that something happened that a person had no control over. If you say things like, “You’re making them out to be victims, like they’re children or something.” You may now leave Earth. Rockets board at midnight.

2-Offended. If you are a person who says things like, “I’m sorry you were offended” you are likely a person who is offended by offense. Which makes you, the least interesting character in every TV show, movie, book and imagined scenario. If someone is offended, it doesn’t make them weak, wrong or “Politically Correct.” It makes them a human being who is offended. By the way, just to reiterate, when you complain about people being offended, you are saying that you are offended by offence. Now that is what I call weak.

3-“Politically Correct.” Ever notice that being “PC” is tantamount to not thinking it’s funny to step on people? Isn’t it telling that you can be called “PC” for simply doing something decent? Don’t you hate when you’re just walking down the street and someone says something, oh I don’t know, racist. Then, you say something like, “Yeah that’s not okay.” Then, their head expands and explodes in slow motion as the words “PC Police” fall from their lips? Funny how you only hear this from bigots. Hmmm…I wonder why?

4-Ironically. When used to describe something you said, wore, ate, drank, watched, ect [Read: All things “Hipster”] what you’re really saying is that you don’t have the backbone to stand up to your friends. If you need the “I was just doing/saying it ironically” excuse, you have no strength in your own convictions and are using the “Ironically” comment to make it seem like you don’t REEEEEEALLY like what you are wearing, what you said, what you drank [PBR? Really kids?] etc. Find your backbone. PS-There is no such thing as being “Ironically” racist. You’re just plain old racist.

5- Illegal Alien/Illegal Immigrant. It’s Undocumented Citizen or Undocumented Worker. Learn it. Use it. Go forth and be great.

everythingbutharleyquinn:

ande-core:

trashprincesss:

trashprincesss:

happiness is not a potato: Some frustrations with non-intersectional “feminists”:

everythingbutharleyquinn:

tealeafprincess:

You cannot support sex workers and be anti-sex work. It is impossible. (If you need that explained to you, you’re operating at a…

Oh I did Sexual Politics wiv Sheila when I was at Melb Uni which is a radfem hotbed and a half. That was..err..interesting.

Me too. I did her class “the politics of sexual reform movements” first year she was there. No one really knew her. I did the second or third tutorial paper of the year on the founding of the Australian Prostitutes Collective. After my presentation when I handed her the written paper she screwed it up and as she threw it in the bin, she glared at me and in front of everyone sort of seethed and said, “That’s what people like you do to women.”
End of academic career at Melbourne Univesity.

sounds pretty typical of Jeffreys. 

(fyi to those who don’t know, APC was founded by a trans woman, Roberta Perkins, and did a huge amount of work supporting aussie sex workers and sex workers working in australia)

(Source: tealeafprincess)

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