{"id":17,"date":"2019-08-30T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-02-22T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:08:59","slug":"5-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/5-13\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/13 | Louis Althusser, <em>Reading Capital<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKSPJGu5CTM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Professors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/etienne-balibar\/\">\u00c9tienne Balibar<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/cgt.columbia.edu\/about\/people\/committee-faculty\/bernard-e-harcourt\/\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-introduction-to-reading-reading-capital\/\"><em>Reading Capital<\/em><\/a> by Louis Althusser, \u00c9tienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Ranci\u00e8re<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">at <a href=\"https:\/\/maisonfrancaise.org\/contact-and-directions\">Maison Fran\u00e7aise<\/a>, Columbia University<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>November 13, 2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~<\/h2>\n<p>Reading <em>Reading Capital<\/em>: surely, the linguistic reprise does not escape you. Our project, very much like the project of Louis Althusser and his students, is to return to a formative critical text in order to deploy it in our contemporary political struggles. That, I would argue, was Althusser\u2019s project\u2014as it is ours.<\/p>\n<p>The proximity raises, as an introductory matter, three issues which, I hope, will guide in part our discussion in the seminar <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/5-13\/\">Critique 5\/13<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/etienne-balibar\/\">\u00c9tienne Balibar<\/a>\u00a0who has already posted a brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/etienne-balibar-preface\/\">preface<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How does Althusser\u2019s and his students\u2019s project in <em>Reading Capital\u00a0<\/em>compare to <em>our\u00a0<\/em>project in Critique 13\/13? What are the differences and, if there are any, how might they inform or transform our project here in Critique 13\/13?<\/li>\n<li>How does Althusser\u2019s reading method\u2014what he refers to as the \u201csymptomatic\u201d (<em>symptomale<\/em>) method\u2014relate to the critical reading methods we discussed in the first seminar, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/1-13\/\">Critique 1\/13<\/a>? How might the differences enrich our critical reading methods here?<\/li>\n<li>How can Althusser\u2019s and his students\u2019s substantive interpretation of Marx\u2019s <em>Capital\u00a0<\/em>inform our substantive reading of <em>Reading Capital\u00a0<\/em>in such a way as to enable us to deploy our reading of <em>Reading Capital\u00a0<\/em>for purposes of our contemporary political struggles?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Project. Method. Deployment. Those are three important dimensions that I hope we will explore in this seminar Critique 5\/13. And I could not think of anyone better suited to discuss these questions with us than \u00c9tienne Balibar, who not only participated in the original project with Althusser and co-authored the book itself <em>Reading Capital<\/em>, but has since become the leading and most influential French philosopher in critical philosophy and contemporary politics. It is an honor and a privilege to welcome \u00c9tienne Balibar to Critique 5\/13!<\/p>\n<p>[Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-introduction-to-reading-reading-capital\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Readings are available <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/critique-5-13-readings\/\">here<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/etienne-balibar\/balibar\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/files\/2019\/09\/balibar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors\u00a0\u00c9tienne Balibar\u00a0and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss Reading Capital by Louis Althusser, \u00c9tienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Ranci\u00e8re at Maison Fran\u00e7aise, Columbia University November 13, 2019\u00a0 ~~~ Reading Reading Capital: surely, the linguistic reprise does not&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/5-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}