How Capitalism Forms Our Lives

ISBN-13: 9780367785680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 110 str.

Alyson Cole; Estelle Ferrarese

Opis

By using the concept of capitalism as a "form of life", the authors in this volume reconceive capitalism, and its mechanisms and effects on our bodies and on our common life. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Spis treści

1. How capitalism forms our lives 2. The state of contemporary social philosophy and the tasks of an institute for social research (1931) 3. Economy as social practice 4. The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of life 5. Universal alienation 6. The enduring regulation of the poor 7. Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life 8. The subject of objects: Marx, new materialism, & queer forms of life 9. The whiteness of capital 10. Beyond the barricades: class interests and actually existing black life 11. The capitalist metabolism: an unachieved subsumption of life under the value-form 12. Vocabularies of vulnerability

O autorze

Alyson Cole is Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (2007), and co-editor of Michael Paul Rogin: Derangement and Liberalism (2019).

Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University, France. Her authored and edited books include Vulnerability and Critical Theory (2018), La fragilité du souci des autres: Adorno et le care (2018), The Politics of Vulnerability (2017), and Éthique et politique de l'espace public: Jürgen Habermas et la discussion (2015).