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Akumulacja pierwotna i czasowości kapitalizmu

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Bednarek J.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

2015

vol. 16

issue 2

56-77

The main thesis of the article is the statement that capitalism is composed of many different, incoherent temporalities, as well as that apprehension of capitalism from the angle of primitive accumulation enables the more accurate grasp of the modes of its functioning, including the complexity created by the interactions of the temporalities mentionned. The problem of primitive accumulation is, as Sandro Mezzadra proves, a good starting point for analysing this issue. It allows us to pose two questions: first, the question of the relation between the historical dimension and the structural logic of capitalism; second, the question of hierarchical relation between the center and the periphery of the capitalist system. Dipesh Chakrabarty’s project of ‘provincializing Europe’ proves helpful here, as it’s goal is deconstruction of the categories of progress, modernization and the capital with its abstract structure. The aim is not to negate the fact that capitalist abstraction is a real force, but to show that this force develops by means of constant assimiliation of the other – redefined as ‘backward’ or archaic. The linear scheme is in force, because it is the main mechanism of imposing the power of capital; as such, it is not politically neutral.

Artykuł broni tezy, że w obrębie kapitalizmu da się wyróżnić wiele wzajemnie niespójnych czasowości oraz że analiza kapitalizmu przez pryzmat akumulacji pierwotnej umożliwia dokładniejsze ujęcie sposobu jego funkcjonowania, uwzględniające złożoność związaną z interakcjami wspomnianych czasowości. Zagadnienie akumulacji pierwotnej jest, jak dowodzi Sandro Mezzadra, dobrym punktem wyjścia dla analizy tego kompleksu problemów. Pozwala bowiem postawić dwa pytania: o relację między historycznym wymiarem a strukturalną logiką kapitalizmu oraz o hierarchiczną relację między centrum i peryferiami systemu kapitalistycznego. Pomocny okazuje się tu projekt „sprowincjonalizowania Europy”, zaproponowany przez Dipesha Chakrabarty’ego; jest to próba zdekonstruowania kategorii takich jak postęp, modernizacja, czy kapitał jako taki z jego abstrakcyjną strukturą.

The Bhadralok as Truth-Seeker: Towards a Social History of the Bengali Detective

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Chakrabarti G.

Cracow Indological Studies

2012

vol. 14

255-268

The figure of the socially-engaged detective who transcends his – a highly gendered agency operates here – generically-sanctioned roles as a glorified intellectual mercenary or “gumshoe”, solver of conundrums and “tangled skeins”, champion of the rule-of-law and keeper of the last resort, while attempting to uphold a universe of moral and ethical values that, simultaneously, do not stray too far from the high road of societal and political acceptability, is a figure to conjure within the literary history of Bengal in the twentieth century. In the present essay, the attempt will be made to study, through a comparativist’s prism, this gravitas, endowed by society, which is associated with the image of the successful private investigator in Bengal; often, his is a voice striking a blow for the spirit of rational enquiry, as with Feluda, and, in other cases, he upholds the dignity of the traditional order/s, while exposing its/their soft underbelly of moral corruption and criminal collusion, as with Byomkesh Bakshi.

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