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Hegel vs logic
A talk about formal logic and Hegel's critique of it.We begin with Aristotle's syllogistic and its dominance throughout the medieval period; then discuss the transition to modern logic in the late…
Marx and the phases of capitalist development (special guest: Nikolaos Chatzarakis)
Guest speaker Nikolaos Chatzarakis, Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, joins the Oxford Communist Correspondence Society to explore the structural evolution of capitalism.…
Is value in the eye of the beholder? Subjectivism in the theory of economic value.
We dive into the centuries-old controversy of economic value: is it determined by the objective difficulty of bringing goods to market or by the subjective preferences of consumers? The discussion…
The God We Don't Believe In: magic, science, and social transformation
A wide-ranging conversation among participants in the econophysics Discord server, featuring Ian Wright, Alex Creiner and Leone. The discussion primarily centers on Wright's provocative idea of…
S2E2 Dark Eucharist of the Real God
“A god abides with us still. And if we wish to see its face we need merely reach into our own pockets.”Sequel to “Marx on Capital as a Real God” that expands on Marx’s comparison of money with…
S2E1 Marx on Capital as a Real God
“The essence of money is … the mediating activity or movement, the human, social act by which man’s products mutually complement one another, is estranged from man and becomes the attribute of money,…
Transcendental undecidability, and the identity of thought and being
This talk examines the significance of the theory of computation for the perennial philosophical problem of the identity of thought and being. I give an accessible overview of the history and main…
Idealism and materialism in the philosophy of mind
Can materialism explain human consciousness? Not according to an influential argument in the philosophy of mind (the “hard problem of consciousness”). In this talk, I (i) sketch a materialist theory…
Blockchain Radicals: on the work of Joshua Dávila (or how to build socialism by earning 7.5% interest)
Joshua Dávila’s 2023 book, “Blockchain Radicals: how capitalism ruined crypto and how to fix it” is an important and visionary, yet grounded, book on how blockchains, used correctly, are a tremendous…
Victorian Seances and Marx’s Law of Value
This is a recording of a talk given on 4th November 2022 in Oxford. I discuss the spooky relationship between Victorian spirit summoning and the “phantom-like objectivity” of value.This is a ghost…
On spirit possession
A 30 mins talk on the history and significance of spirit possession, and why the modern commercial subject is also possessed. Talk given in Oxford on 11 May 2023.Erratum: the first recorded case of…
What is the meaning of money?
Remarks on the missing theory of semantic reference in economic theory.
S1E2 Part 2: A Hegelian interpretation of Riemann’s Zeta Function
Being, Nothing and Becoming in the structure of the primes.Part 2 of 2.
S1E1 Part 1: A mathematical interpretation of the opening of Hegel’s Science of Logic
Being, Nothing, and Becoming interpreted in terms of the simplest possible feedback equations.Part 1 of 2.
Why machines don’t create value
A popular objection to Marx’s labor theory of value is that human labor alone doesn’t create profits: labor must be mixed with capital and land to produce useful output; and, anyway, machines can…
Marx’s irrational irrational commodity
At the top of the pyramid is a baleful eye, Capital — a real God, the demiurge of the world — that controls every aspect of our lives. Marx scaled the pyramid and gazed into the depths of the horror.…
The genesis of the transformation problem
A 40 minutes introduction on the genesis of Marx’s transformation problem.
On ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Short talk that summarises the 1930’s book “The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution”, followed by brief critical remarks. Useful, I hope, if you’d like to get a high-level…
Isaac Newton’s occult properties
This is a recording of a talk given on 9th June 2022 in Oxford. I discuss the two sides of Newton: the enchanted medieval Christian — believer in occult spirits that move the universe — and the…
Materialism and Cantor’s higher infinities
In 1874 the mathematician Georg Cantor published a paper that claimed to prove the existence of an infinite hierarchy of infinities, each more vast than the infinity before it, stretching out forever…
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