Abstract
This essay outlines a Marxian critique of rational choice theory through an analysis of the Newcomb Problem and the debate it generated among decision theorists in the 1970s. I argue that the structural role of embodiment and omniscience in various formulations of the Newcomb Problem points toward a reconceptualization of capitalist rationality and consumption vis-à-vis both classical and analytic Marxism. More broadly, the essay seeks to establish new terms of engagement between critical theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and rational choice theory.
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