Yahya Mete Madra

Associate Professor of EconomicsBoğaziçi University

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Das Kapital as an object

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Yahya Mete Madra Boğaziçi University

September 18, 2014
Das Kapital as an object transition production Nasan Tur Modes of Production Millennial Marxism Marxism digital transition destruction Das Kapital Capital Curator's Note When I first saw Nasan Tur’s “Kapital” (2011), a triptych featuring handmade she ...

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Re: The Visibility of the Economy

"documentary of an immanent cause"

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Yahya Mete Madra Boğaziçi University

Thursday, September 18, 2014 — 12:12 am
In the first paragraph, I was worried about the possible ways in which rendering the economy visible may collapse into the imaginary register. Yet, in the second paragraph the problem of visibility gained a Real dimension. In the past, I tried to think th ...
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Re: The Visibility of the Economy

UNMAKING THE WORLD

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Yahya Mete Madra Boğaziçi University

Sunday, September 21, 2014 — 5:15 pm
There are a couple of threads operating here. Perhaps the main one was a friendly critique towards the performativity literature (which is gaining some traction in Economics through the very useful work of Callon, MacKenzie, etc.). While they emphasize, a ...

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Yahya studied economics in Istanbul and Amherst, Massachusetts. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts and at Skidmore and Gettysburg Colleges. He is currently an associate professor of economics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and teaches political economy and history of economics. His work appeared in Antipode, Journal of Economic Issues, Rethinking Marxism, The European Journal of History of Economic Thought, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Subjectivity as well as edited volumes. He is a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism and served as an associate editor of the journal between 2009-2013. He is working on a new book manuscript (co-authored with his long-time collaborator Ceren Özselçuk), provisionally entitled as Sexuating Class: A Psychoanalytical Critique of Political Economy.

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Das Kapital as an object

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"documentary of an immanent cause"

UNMAKING THE WORLD