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Weber on Economy and Representation

May 9, 2009 in Methodology, Quotes | No comments

In Economy and Society, Weber already mentioned the elective affinity between an economic model and a representation model in economy. If absolutism meant the transition of an agrarian society based on the sovereign as representative of the people of a state by God’s grace, and the industrial revolution operated a move towards the representation of the nation by means of the members of a Parliament chosen by the people. A new move towards an information society might require new ways of representing political will. What would be its vectors? What sort of representation would have an economy based on intangible packets of knowledge?

Marx – Crítica de la economía política

April 23, 2009 in Quotes | No comments

“Una formación social nunca declina antes que se hayan desarrollado todas las fuerzas productivas que ella, en toda su extensión, es capaz de contener y nunca surgen nuevas relaciones de producción superiores antes de que sus condiciones materiales de existencia hayan sido generadas en el seno de la vieja sociedad. Es por esto que la Humanidad nunca se propone realizar tareas que no pueden ser llevadas a cabo, ya que si analizamos bien las cosas, llegaremos siempre a la conclusión de que la propia tarea solo surge si las condiciones materiales de su resolución ya existen de antemano, o por lo menos existen en vías de formación”.

Walter Benjamin

April 18, 2009 in Quotes | No comments

“…every great work dissolves a genre or founds a new one.”