yahya m madra
@ymadra.bsky.social
psychoanalysis // critique of political economy // http://yahyamadra.net // coeditor @ Rethinking Marxism //
Here’s the short intervention I delivered for the roundtable. Two main threads of the roundtable were on death drive and free association, but there were many other connections.
July 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Here’s the short intervention I delivered for the roundtable. Two main threads of the roundtable were on death drive and free association, but there were many other connections.
This is happening on July 19th:
"The Communists Believe..."
For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events
"The Communists Believe..."
For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events
July 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is happening on July 19th:
"The Communists Believe..."
For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events
"The Communists Believe..."
For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events
Working title: Post-capitalist politics contra mutations of neoliberalism: Persistence of value and class under postcapitalism #SummerProject
July 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Working title: Post-capitalist politics contra mutations of neoliberalism: Persistence of value and class under postcapitalism #SummerProject
New paper, deepening the argument . Part IV: class analysis deepened, mutations of neoliberalism, rethinking governmentality, revisiting the transition question.
June 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
New paper, deepening the argument . Part IV: class analysis deepened, mutations of neoliberalism, rethinking governmentality, revisiting the transition question.
New paper, counter argument. Part III: Class analysis of the articulation of wage labor and self-employment
June 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
New paper, counter argument. Part III: Class analysis of the articulation of wage labor and self-employment
New paper, mapping the terrain. Part II: Capitalism in crisis: secular and cyclical
June 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New paper, mapping the terrain. Part II: Capitalism in crisis: secular and cyclical
New paper, collecting materials. Part I: The proposition of post-capitalist feudalism
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
New paper, collecting materials. Part I: The proposition of post-capitalist feudalism
Actuel Marx dossier on Lacan (No.77), with contributions from P. Bianchi, A. Dagfal, L. Boni, P. Gillot, B. Ogilvie and E. Balibar, has arrived in the mail. Our contribution with Ceren Özselçuk is translated by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc.
“Capitalist discourse: Value of labor power in social links”
“Capitalist discourse: Value of labor power in social links”
May 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Actuel Marx dossier on Lacan (No.77), with contributions from P. Bianchi, A. Dagfal, L. Boni, P. Gillot, B. Ogilvie and E. Balibar, has arrived in the mail. Our contribution with Ceren Özselçuk is translated by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc.
“Capitalist discourse: Value of labor power in social links”
“Capitalist discourse: Value of labor power in social links”
New paper. For Actuel Marx.
January 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New paper. For Actuel Marx.
The End of Globalization (as the hegemonic program of the Empire)
January 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The End of Globalization (as the hegemonic program of the Empire)
Ellie Ragland (1942-2025)
She was a serious, non-compromising Lacanian.
She was a serious, non-compromising Lacanian.
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Ellie Ragland (1942-2025)
She was a serious, non-compromising Lacanian.
She was a serious, non-compromising Lacanian.
Lectured today on Lacan’s Four Discourses + Fifth Discourse at Ceren Özselçuk seminar at Boğaziçi Uni. Some clinical dimensions came forth.
November 27, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Lectured today on Lacan’s Four Discourses + Fifth Discourse at Ceren Özselçuk seminar at Boğaziçi Uni. Some clinical dimensions came forth.
What we are seeing is “corporate sovereignty,” a mix of neoliberalism and neomercantilism, not as a synthesis as Keynesian social democracy was, but as a conjunction, as a bricolage.
November 13, 2024 at 1:44 PM
What we are seeing is “corporate sovereignty,” a mix of neoliberalism and neomercantilism, not as a synthesis as Keynesian social democracy was, but as a conjunction, as a bricolage.
On object a as a logical consistency. And on the intentional awkwardness of the title of Seminar XVI.
From J.-A. M.’s A Reading of the Seminar… [2006].
From J.-A. M.’s A Reading of the Seminar… [2006].
September 29, 2024 at 11:53 PM
On object a as a logical consistency. And on the intentional awkwardness of the title of Seminar XVI.
From J.-A. M.’s A Reading of the Seminar… [2006].
From J.-A. M.’s A Reading of the Seminar… [2006].
February 23, 2024 at 1:33 AM
JL at the end of Seminar XI.
“There is only one kind of psycho-analysis, the training analysis…”
“There is only one kind of psycho-analysis, the training analysis…”
February 10, 2024 at 1:11 AM
JL at the end of Seminar XI.
“There is only one kind of psycho-analysis, the training analysis…”
“There is only one kind of psycho-analysis, the training analysis…”
An interesting find at Book Culture today.
Communication and Class Struggle: 2. Liberation, Socialism
Edited by Armand Mattelart & Seth Siegelaub
New York, International General and Bagnolet, IMMRC, 1983.
Communication and Class Struggle: 2. Liberation, Socialism
Edited by Armand Mattelart & Seth Siegelaub
New York, International General and Bagnolet, IMMRC, 1983.
September 25, 2023 at 2:31 AM
An interesting find at Book Culture today.
Communication and Class Struggle: 2. Liberation, Socialism
Edited by Armand Mattelart & Seth Siegelaub
New York, International General and Bagnolet, IMMRC, 1983.
Communication and Class Struggle: 2. Liberation, Socialism
Edited by Armand Mattelart & Seth Siegelaub
New York, International General and Bagnolet, IMMRC, 1983.
Two cheap (but great) finds from the always tragically expensive Alabaster Bookshop in NYC.
September 14, 2023 at 9:33 PM
Two cheap (but great) finds from the always tragically expensive Alabaster Bookshop in NYC.
Continuing with Jairus Banaji’s A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (2020). Cover image is Istanbul circa 1870.
September 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Continuing with Jairus Banaji’s A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (2020). Cover image is Istanbul circa 1870.
As the new semester begins, here are some history of economics readings I do to keep myself inspired. First one is late Ünal Nalbantoğlu’s lecture notes (Classical Theories of Political Economy) from his seminar at Berkeley from Spring 1990 (translated to Turkish by Ceyhun Gürkan).
September 11, 2023 at 12:59 PM
As the new semester begins, here are some history of economics readings I do to keep myself inspired. First one is late Ünal Nalbantoğlu’s lecture notes (Classical Theories of Political Economy) from his seminar at Berkeley from Spring 1990 (translated to Turkish by Ceyhun Gürkan).
Proceedings of Rethinking Marxism’s 1992 Conference. Digged it up for Bruce Norton’s political economy critique of the Jameson/Mandel argument. But there is so much more anticipating the battle lines within marxism in the subsequent decades.
September 6, 2023 at 1:38 PM
Proceedings of Rethinking Marxism’s 1992 Conference. Digged it up for Bruce Norton’s political economy critique of the Jameson/Mandel argument. But there is so much more anticipating the battle lines within marxism in the subsequent decades.
matheme is lalangue.
September 5, 2023 at 12:53 AM
matheme is lalangue.
Lara and I with our Another World Is Possible tshirts. Designed by @alyaimsorry.bsky.social. Available on Etsy.
@larafresko.bsky.social
@larafresko.bsky.social
August 23, 2023 at 1:01 AM
Lara and I with our Another World Is Possible tshirts. Designed by @alyaimsorry.bsky.social. Available on Etsy.
@larafresko.bsky.social
@larafresko.bsky.social
First transmission: At RM, we are just sending the copyedited versions of the remaining articles for the fall special issue VULGAR/MARXISM. My paper is on an obscure minor skirmish between Maurice Dobb and Abba Lerner. Not surprisingly things got quickly out of control subsequently.
August 19, 2023 at 12:05 AM
First transmission: At RM, we are just sending the copyedited versions of the remaining articles for the fall special issue VULGAR/MARXISM. My paper is on an obscure minor skirmish between Maurice Dobb and Abba Lerner. Not surprisingly things got quickly out of control subsequently.