Wang Hui: even in Taiwan's recent #occupyCongress movement, student activists spotted studying #Karatani in on-site teach-in. #KarataniDuke

Received notion in sinology: the Chinese empire sustained by Confucian structure. Vastly diff from Karatani's, acc to Wang Hui.#KarataniDuke

Phil Wegner on Karatani's historical dialectic in the The Structure of World History : #Karatani #KarataniDuke http://t.co/xTdJBKRNc0

Etienne Balibar: "Only imaginary communities are real." #Karatani #KarataniDuke

Viren Murthy returns to Paul Thomas' notion of "alien politics": #KarataniDuke #Karatani http://t.co/xvDkuHPWyn

Haroutunian questions "the necessity of crisis" in Marx."Maybe an exacerbation of crisis is [the state's] mode of resolution." #KarataniDuke

Therefore, marxism must be part of a political and not just an epistemological practice. -Paul Hirst #KarataniDuke

"The past,no matter however it may be conceived,cannot affect present conditions." (Hirst, Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production) #KarataniDuke

Jameson invokes Hindess/Hirst's famous disavowal: "the study of history is not only scientifically but politically valueless.” #KarataniDuke

Jameson: "We can locate the scandal here in geography itself." Universal history is then an attempt to philosophize geography. #KarataniDuke

Jameson: tension/antagonism betw history as structural, and refusal to reduce unique historical events to universal history. #KarataniDuke

Fred Jameson in top form, introducing the conference w/ remarks on Karatani Kojin's new work, THE STRUCTURE OF WORLD HISTORY. #KarataniDuke

Jameson: Karatani writing a universal history when universal history dismissed as totalization #KarataniDuke @DukeU