Surplus-knowledge (Siyaves Azeri)

“Knowledge is not a bulk of propositions or informative statements, but an activity inseparable from the knowing subject – with the knowing subject being not the mere, abstract “individual” but “social humanity.” Knowledge is the socio-historically specific human activity of “appropriating” nature; it is realized/actualized at the line of contact between human and social nature; it is the metabolic exchange between humans and nature that amounts to socializing nature and naturalizing humans.”

This work was supported by the project “Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis” funded by European Union – NextgenerationEU and Romanian Government, under National Recovery and Resilience Plan for Romania, contract no. 760044//23.05.2023, cod PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022, through the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, within Component 9, Investment I8.

Siyaves Azeri is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Azeri is also co-editor in chief of Marxism & Sciences and an associate of the “Theses Twelve: Mardin Value-Form Circle.” He is the author of The Riddle of Subjectivity: Contextualizing Hume’s Theory of the Self (Brill, forthcoming). His recent articles have appeared in Critical Studies on Religion, Studies in Eastern European Thought, Social Epistemology, Theory & Psychology, and Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, among other journals.