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This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within the profession are due to material changes in the organization of production and labour relations. These changes are part of a transition from one "regime of accumulation" (industrial, Fordist, Keynesian) to another (neoliberal). The article suggests that any choice made to address these changes leads us further into relations of commodification which worsen the crises we face, and that only fundamental changes to the social, political, and economic system in which we work and live will solve the problems we currently face.

This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within the profession are due to material changes in the organization of production and labour relations. These changes are part of a transition from one "regime of accumulation" (industrial, Fordist, Keynesian) to another (neoliberal). The article suggests that any choice made to address these changes leads us further into relations of commodification which worsen the crises we face, and that only fundamental changes to the social, political, and economic system in which we work and live will solve the problems we currently face.

Ausgehend von der Rezeption und Reformulierung des Theorems der reellen Subsumtion wird in dem Beitrag gezeigt, daß diesem Theorem für die Weiterentwicklung kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie auf der Basis der Marxschen Arbeiten auch in Zukunft eine zentrale Rolle zukommt. Dieses Theorem wird als geschichtstheoretische Kategorie und zunächst als Theorie der Lohnarbeit unter sich wandelnden kapitalistischen Produktionsbedingungen verstanden, die die Widersprüche des Subjekts oder, anders gesagt, die Dialektik von Unterordnung und Kooperation einbezieht. Es wird gezeigt, daß die Analyse der inneren Zusammenhänge von gesellschaftlicher Arbeit und Produktion einerseits und wissenschaftliche Denkformen anderseits die Möeglichkeit eröffnen, die reelle Subsumtion der Subjekte unter Modi der abstrakten Vergesellschaftung im entwickelten Kapitalismus zu untersuchen. Für dieses Vorhaben wird das Erbe der Kritischen Theorie, besonders in der Fassung bei Adorno, in Anspruch genommen. (KW)

Water buffaloes have a seasonal cycle of reproduction. Normally they tend to reproduce more when the daylight hours decrease. This seasonal reproduction also means that most of the buffalo calves would be born in autumn and winter in Italy where buffaloes are dairy animals, and milk production would be the highest in these seasons. However, consumer demand for the PDO (Protected designation of origin) mozzarella cheese is the highest in spring and summer. In order to deal with the imbalances between the seasonality of milk production and mozzarella consumption, and the strict regulations of the PDO cheese production, farmers and veterinarians resort to a temporal fix, and they regularly deseasonalise buffalo reproduction. However, there is an obvious discrepancy between the use of this and other fixes (cryotechnologies) generally associated with industrial agriculture, and the idea of traditional and sustainable food production. By engaging with relevant economic geography and political ecology literature, this paper investigates the temporal fixes in dairy farming and agri-food production through an in-depth empirical analysis of deseasonalisation, as a particular form of the real subsumption of nature, and cryopolitics in buffalo mozzarella cheese production in Southern Italy. The work presented in this article is based on multi-sited qualitative field research of buffalo farming and mozzarella cheese production in Campania region. This paper also has wider implications on how socio-ecological fixes shape 'just-in-time' animal agriculture and agri-food production.

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Attempts to unify Marxist and feminist social critique have been vexed by the fact that 'patriarchy' predates the advent of capitalism (its transhistorical status). Feminists within the Marxist, socialist, and materialist traditions have responded to this point by either granting patriarchy a certain autonomy relative to capitalism (the 'dual/triple systems' approach), or by suggesting that patriarchal relations have a foundational and necessary status in the history of capitalist development (which we term the 'origins-subsistence' approach). This paper offers an alternative account of the relationship between capitalism and the transhistorical status of 'patriarchy'. In aid of a 'unitary theory' of Marxist Feminism, we argue that the transhistorical status of patriarchy is better understood through an application of Marx's concepts of formal and real subsumption. A modified version of these concepts can illuminate not only capitalist appropriation of antecedent social and economic forms, but also its capacity to produce new forms of gendered exploitation and oppression.

Possible theoretical elements are explored explaining capitalist exploitation of non-capitalist forms of production. This paper also points out how to understand peasant production inserted into the historical development of a capitalist export market as is the case of the coffee production in Costa Rica. ; Exploración sobre elementos teóricos posibles de explicación de la explotación capitalista de formas no capitalistas de producción, o acerca de cómo entender una producción campesina inserta en el desarrollo histórico de un mercado capitalista de exportación como es el caso de la producción cafetalera en Costa Rica.

Exploración sobre elementos teóricos posibles de explicación de la explotación capitalista de formas no capitalistas de producción, o acerca de cómo entender una producción campesina inserta en el desarrollo histórico de un mercado capitalista de exportación como es el caso de la producción cafetalera en Costa Rica. ; Possible theoretical elements are explored explaining capitalist exploitation of non-capitalist forms of production. This paper also points out how to understand peasant production inserted into the historical development of a capitalist export market as is the case of the coffee production in Costa Rica.