On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Lit Z) by Jacques LezraEnglish | March 27, 2018 | ISBN: 0823279421, 082327943X | True EPUB | 288 pages | 2.4 MB
On the Nature of Marx's Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx's earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marx's inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non-self-evident ways, as dynamic, aleatory, and always marked by its relation to language, raises central questions about ontology, political economy, and reading.