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Follow the money? Value theory and social inquiry
Frederick H. Pitts Pitts
Sep 01, 2014
The paper seeks to conceptualise Marxian value theory as a problem for social research to investigate. It is argued that so conceptualised, value can only be encountered by the study of the ‘totality of social relations’ in...
Follow the money? Value theory and social inquiry
Frederick H. Pitts Pitts
Sep 01, 2014
The paper seeks to conceptualise Marxian value theory as a problem for social research to investigate. It is argued that so conceptualised, value can only be encountered by the study of the ‘totality of social relations’ in...
Axioms for modelling cubical type theory in a topos
The homotopical approach to intensional type theory views proofs of equality
as paths. We explore what is required of an object $I$ in a topos to give such
a path-based model of type theory in which paths are just functions with...
‘I Am that I Am’ (Ex. 3.14)
Abstract We shall revisit a debate which has been going on at least since pioneering British Indologists like William Jones first encountered the ‘Brahmanic theology’ we now know as Vedānta...
Daniel Soars
Jul 07, 2021
‘I Am that I Am’ (Ex. 3.14)
Daniel Soars
Jun 28, 2021
Abstract: We shall revisit a debate which has been going on at least since pioneering British Indologists like William Jones first encountered the ‘Brahmanic theology’ we now know as Vedānta, namely, the nature of the...
Why I Am Not a Vegetarian
David Meeler
Jan 01, 0001
This is a paper about why I am not convinced by the moral arguments generally offered by vegetarians. This point helps indicate what the paper is not about. Many people choose vegetarianism for religious reasons, but I have...
Published by: Winthrop University
Labour-time in the Dot.Com bubble
Frederick Harry Pitts
Jan 01, 0001
Looking at the Dot.Com boom and bust witnessed in the United States between 1995 and 2003, this paper will give an interpretation of Marx’s mature economic theory with a particular emphasis upon the role of labour-time in his...
Labour-time in the Dot.Com bubble
Frederick Harry Pitts
Jan 01, 0001
Looking at the Dot.Com boom and bust witnessed in the United States between 1995 and 2003, this paper will give an interpretation of Marx’s mature economic theory with a particular emphasis upon the role of labour-time in his...
A hidden history
Frederick H. Pitts
Jan 01, 0001
In this article I craft a definition of the role of the creative industries through time and in their contemporary specificity. I consider some of the possible approaches to the situation of the creative industries vis-à-vis the...
Typal Heterogeneous Equality Types
Andrew Pitts
Mar 17, 2020
The usual homogeneous form of equality type in Martin-L\"of Type Theory
contains identifications between elements of the same type. By contrast, the
heterogeneous form of equality contains identifications between elements...
Conservation of Energy
J Brian Pitts
Aug 18, 2021
Misconceptions about energy conservation abound due to the gap between physics and secondary school chemistry. This paper surveys this difference and its relevance to the 1690s-2010s Leibnizian argument that mind-body...
The Critique of the Equation and the Phenomenology of Production
Frederick H. Pitts
Sep 15, 2015
In Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson distinguishes two stages of inquiry present within Marx’s magnum opus. The first is the critique of the equation. The second is the phenomenology of production. The distinction suggests...
Always Be Closing
Frederick Pitts
Dec 01, 2015
This article reports the author's experience of working in telesales. Through a call center, the case study company sells home improvements. The article describes the everyday organizational life of the telesales unit. Using...
A crisis of measurability? Critiquing post-operaismo on labour, value and the basic income
Frederick Pitts
Sep 21, 2016
This article critiques postoperaist conceptualisations of immaterial labour from the perspective of Marxian value-form theory. Critiquing the idea of the ‘crisis of measurability’ created by immaterial labour and the contention...
Marx critical management studies Immaterial labour Marxism Labour Capitalism Work post work post capitalism Postoperaismo Antonio Negri New Reading of Marx Sociology of Work critical theory Michael Heinrich Werner Bonefeld abstract labour measurement crisis Political Economy /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 name=Sociology and Political Science /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3301 name=Social Sciences (miscellaneous) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1401 name=Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1407 name=Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1211 name=Philosophy
Creativity and the commodity in the automobile industry
Frederick H. Pitts
Mar 23, 2015
This paper presents a qualitative understanding of what embedded creative employment does and the role it plays in the wider capitalist economy. A series of case studies of creative practices in the automotive manufacturing...
Time crisis
Frederick H. Pitts
Feb 01, 2014
From 1995 until 2003, the US economy experienced a financial bubble and subsequent crash based upon the fortunes of the so-called ‘New Economy’, consisting of fledgling start-up businesses in the technology, media and...
Change in Hamiltonian General Relativity with Spinors
J. Brian Pitts
Nov 03, 2021
Abstract: In General Relativity in Hamiltonian form, change has seemed to be missing, defined only asymptotically, or otherwise obscured at best, because the Hamiltonian is a sum of first-class constraints and a boundary term...
Retrograde Activation of a Somatic Transcriptional Program Regulates Distal Axon Degeneration
Jason Pitts
Jan 01, 0001
During development of the peripheral nervous system, sensory axons extend to the periphery in excess where they compete for limiting target-derived neurotrophic support. Local neurotrophin insufficiency triggers axon...
Published by: Rockefeller University
Normalisation, exclusion, commensuration
Frederick H. Pitts
Apr 30, 2015
This paper discusses the means by which work is normalised, some of the manifestations of its normalisation, and the possibilities for the denormalisation of work provided by the renewal of ‘political’ economy. It suggests that...
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