55 research outputs found
Unpacking the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA): Internationalisation of capital, imperial rivalry and cooperation, and regional power agency
No full textMiddle Eastern Studie
Forms of Exploitation and Social Reproduction: Jairus Banaji and Silvia Federici on Capitalism, Value and Unfree Labour
No full textThis chapter contributes to the mode of production debate by offering a joint reading of theories recognizing many ‘Forms of Exploitation’ (FoE) and Early Social Reproduction Analyses (ESRA). Focusing on the work of Jairus Banaji and Silvia Federici, the chapter illustrates how their insights broaden the conceptual boundaries of exploitation, offering a deeper understanding of global labour realities, both past and present. They also deepen our understanding of value generation and surplus extraction across the productive and reproductive continuum, while highlighting the centrality of labour unfreedom in capitalism. This joint reading provides an opportunity to reconsider rigid interpretations of what constitutes a ‘unitary theory of capitalism’. What is often forgotten is that the very possibility of such a theory is conditional on the definition of capitalism we adopt. If, in line with Banaji, Federici and ESRA, we define capitalism as a mode of production driven by the extraction of surplus-value operating through diverse forms of exploitation, crossing realms of production and reproduction, then we can construct an alternative unitary theory of capitalism with pivotal consequences for our understanding of revolutionary subjects and anti-capitalist struggles
Book Review: John Smith, <i>Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and the Crisis of Capitalism</i>
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Book Review: Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and the Crisis of Capitalism68.1576 SmithJohn — Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Monthly review Press, 2016). <i>Political Studies Review</i>15(4), Nov. 2017: 638.
No full textBook Review: Brecht De Smet, <i>Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt</i>
No full textNeoliberalisation, state and social classes: the political economy of contemporary Iran
No full textThis thesis analyses socio-economic and political transformations in contemporary Iran. The study aims to overcome the shortcomings of the existing International Relations and International Political Economy literature on the country that has sought explanations based upon various unique internal characteristics whereby Iran is disconnected from the wider space of economic, political and cultural globalisation. By reconstructing a historical materialist approach based on the radical social ontology of the philosophy of internal relations, the project situates Iran within the broader process of neoliberal restructuring of the global economy, therefore taking into account external and internal determinants and global and local dynamics. Accordingly, the proposed method of analysis traces the changes in social relations of production and the transformations in the class structure. It further examines the corresponding changes in the state form and the relationality between the process of neoliberalisation and the nuclear program. It argues that the neoliberal reorganisation of production process since the late 1980s has brought about an internationalist capital fraction and a nationalist capital fraction, named the military-bonyad complex, with contesting interests. The process has thus facilitated different competing accumulation strategies, which in turn have resulted in an unstable combined development, called hybrid neoliberalism. It has also generated an intense struggle within the state due to the historical importance of the state in Iran regarding capital accumulation. As well as changing the function and operation of numerous state institutions, this rising crescendo of confrontation has also provided the material bases for the realisation of the liberal/democratic discourse and the reconfiguration of the revolutionary interpretation of Islam, which has aided the two wings of power in their societal struggle for hegemony. Likewise, the foreign policy of the country has been the subject of this struggle whereby the internationalist fraction and the military-bonyad complex have taken different policies regarding the nuclear program. Considering the internal relations existing between geopolitics and capitalism, the former has utilised the nuclear program to expedite the permeation of foreign capital while the latter’s hardline nationalist approach has enabled the further isolation of Iran by provoking a retaliatory Western stance in the form of international sanctions and frequent military threats from certain U.S. governments in the last few decades
Neoliberalisation, state and social classes: the political economy of contemporary Iran
No full textThis thesis analyses socio-economic and political transformations in contemporary Iran. The study aims to overcome the shortcomings of the existing International Relations and International Political Economy literature on the country that has sought explanations based upon various unique internal characteristics whereby Iran is disconnected from the wider space of economic, political and cultural globalisation. By reconstructing a historical materialist approach based on the radical social ontology of the philosophy of internal relations, the project situates Iran within the broader process of neoliberal restructuring of the global economy, therefore taking into account external and internal determinants and global and local dynamics. Accordingly, the proposed method of analysis traces the changes in social relations of production and the transformations in the class structure. It further examines the corresponding changes in the state form and the relationality between the process of neoliberalisation and the nuclear program. It argues that the neoliberal reorganisation of production process since the late 1980s has brought about an internationalist capital fraction and a nationalist capital fraction, named the military-bonyad complex, with contesting interests. The process has thus facilitated different competing accumulation strategies, which in turn have resulted in an unstable combined development, called hybrid neoliberalism. It has also generated an intense struggle within the state due to the historical importance of the state in Iran regarding capital accumulation. As well as changing the function and operation of numerous state institutions, this rising crescendo of confrontation has also provided the material bases for the realisation of the liberal/democratic discourse and the reconfiguration of the revolutionary interpretation of Islam, which has aided the two wings of power in their societal struggle for hegemony. Likewise, the foreign policy of the country has been the subject of this struggle whereby the internationalist fraction and the military-bonyad complex have taken different policies regarding the nuclear program. Considering the internal relations existing between geopolitics and capitalism, the former has utilised the nuclear program to expedite the permeation of foreign capital while the latter’s hardline nationalist approach has enabled the further isolation of Iran by provoking a retaliatory Western stance in the form of international sanctions and frequent military threats from certain U.S. governments in the last few decades
Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism: Gender, Race and Eurocentrism
No full textBringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ‘mode of production debate’ to address often-overlooked dimensions: gender, race, and Eurocentrism.
The concept of mode of production is placed in dialogue with Marxist debates on domestic labour, racial capitalism and the ways in which Eurocentrism has shaped the historiographies of capitalism. In doing so, the book offers novel approaches to studying the origins, modalities and contradictions of capitalism.
Advancing an integrated framework that incorporates class, gender, race and ethnicity, the book opens pathways to new research for better understanding, resisting and transcending capitalism
Humans Disagree With the IoU for Measuring Object Detector Localization Error
No full textThe localization quality of automatic object detectors is typically evaluated by the Intersection over Union (IoU) score. In this work, we show that humans have a different view on localization quality. To evaluate this, we conduct a survey with more than 70 participants. Results show that for localization errors with the exact same IoU score, humans might not consider that these errors are equal, and express a preference. Our work is the first to evaluate IoU with humans and makes it clear that relying on IoU scores alone to evaluate localization errors might not be sufficient.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Pattern Recognition and BioinformaticsWeb Information System
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