Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Patriarchy of the Wage and the Disciplining of Women.
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
When it comes to language, how does it relate to reality? Signs, sense, reference, definite descriptions or denoting phrases, definite & indefinite articles. How do we understand the sense & reference of fictional objects? What objects do their names refer to, and what type of reality do they have? How is it possible to refer to something that doesn’t exist? What kind of sense could a definite description like “the present emperor of CHINA” have since there is no denotation for “the present emperor of CHINA?” Are statements about non-existent entities true or false? How does our sense of the way language relates to reality change when we speak of the unreal? So, is sense superfluous as Russell says? Or, can sense be rescued beyond the shackles of the nominatum? This video will explore all of these concepts and is itself a sign referring to the famous Frege/Russell debate about Sense & Reference.
Frege, Gottlob. “On Sense and Nominatum (1892).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 190–202. Buy here:!
Russell, Bertrand. “On Denoting (1905).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 203–211. Buy here:!
Russell, Bertrand. “Descriptions (1919).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 212–218. Buy here:!
Strawson, P.F. “On Referring (1950).” The Philosophy of Language, edited by Aloysius Martinich, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 219–234. Buy here:!
Farmer, Philip Jose. Riders of the Purple Wage. Buy here!
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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Price Revolution, and the Pauperization & Criminalization of the Working Class
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, the Rise of Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Empricus, Sextus. Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Translated by Robert Gregg Bury, Prometheus Books, 1990. Buy here!
Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Vintage Books, 2004. Buy here!
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005. Buy here!
Federici, Silvia. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. PM Press, 2012. Buy here!
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press, 2008. Buy here!
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 2021. Buy here!
González Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Penguin Books, 2011. Buy here!
Hume, David. Selected Essays (Oxford World’s Classics). Edited by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar, Oxford University Press, 1998. Buy here!
Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Barnes & Noble, 2005. Buy here!
Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve, 2009. Buy here!
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men. Basic Books, 1992. Buy here!
Harvey, David. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2015. Buy here!
Lyotard Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. Buy here!
Pojman, Louis P., and Michael C. Rea, editors. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations. Edited by Dermot Moran. Translated by J N Findlay, Volume I, Routledge, 2001. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations. Edited by Dermot Moran. Translated by John N. Findlay, Volume II, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2001. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology. Translated by Fred Kersten, vol. 1, Kluwer, 1998. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution. Vol. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1982. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Translated by John B. Brough, Kluwer Academic Publ, 2011. Buy here!
Husserl, Edmund. Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2013. Buy here!
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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes talks about how the Laws of Nature are the unwritten form of what becomes Civil Laws. Natural Laws are qualities which dispose man to peacefulness. But, what is Just and Right only become properly Laws once a common-wealth of humans is established. The ultimate goal of Laws are to limit the natural proclivities of individual people for the common good of all peoples and the defense against enemies.
“The Law of Nature, and the Civill Law, contain each other, and are of equall extent. For the Lawes of Nature, which consist in Equity, Justice, Gratitude, and other morall Vertues on these depending, in the condition of meer Nature are not Properly Lawes, but qualities that dispose men to peace, and to obedience. When a Common-wealth is once settled, then are they actually Lawes, and not before; as being then the commands of the Common-wealth; and therefore also Civill Lawes: For it is the Soveraign Power that obliges men to obey them. For in the differences of private men, to declare, what is Equity, what is Justice, and what is morall Vertue, and to make them binding, there is need of the Ordinances of Soveraign Power, and Punishments to be ordained for such as shall break them; which Ordinances are therefore part of the Civill Law. The Law of Nature therefore is a part of the Civill Law in all Common-wealths of the world. Reciprocally also, the Civill Law is a part of the Dictates of Nature. For Justice, that is to say, Performance of Covenent, and giving to every man his own, is a Dictate of the Law of Nature. But every subject in a Common-wealth, hath covenanted to obey the Civill Law. And therefore Obedience to the Civill Law is part also of the Law of Nature. Civill, and Naturall Law are not different kinds, but different parts of Law; whereof one part being written, is called Civill, the other unwritten, Naturall. But the Right of Nature, that is, the naturall Liberty of man, may be the Civill Law be abridged, & restrained: nay, the end of making Lawes, is no other, but such Restraint; without the which there cannot possibly be any Peace.
And Law was brought into the world for nothing else but to limit the naturall liberty of particular men, in such manner, as they might not hurt, but assist one another, and joyn together against a common enemy.”
