Althusser

Appaduri

Balibar

Bhabha

Bloch

Durst

Hall

Harootunian

Jameson

Koselleck

Osborne

Peter Osborne

Postone

Schwartz

Tomba

Tombazos

Osborne, Peter

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Out of sync: Tomba’s Marx and the problem of a multi-layered temporal dialectic

This piece reconstructs and reflects upon the terms of the theoretical projection underlying Max Tomba’s book,Marx’s Temporalities, with particular reference to his use of the concepts of multiple temporalities (Ernst Bloch) and temporal layers (Bloch and Reinhart Koselleck). Tomba’s use of these concepts, it is argued, productively relocates Marx’s writings within the framework of the twentieth-century philosophy of time. However, Tomba’s dependence upon received versions of these concepts, untransformed, reproduces theoretical problems implicit within them, which have been intensified by recent developments within global capital. The application of these concepts to an understanding of the historical present, understood as a situation of globally disjunctive contemporaneity, is seen to be, in part, vitiated by their embeddedness within an increasingly exhausted past.</jats:p

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Out of Sync: Tomba’s Marx and the Problem of a Multi-layered Temporal Dialectic

Out of sync: Tomba’s Marx and the problem of a multi-layered temporal dialectic

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