Mute Compulsion
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Capitalism in the twenty-first century keeps going despite its unresolvable contradictions, frequent upheavals, and strong opposition. Mute Compulsion offers a new Marxist account of how capital expands and entrenches itself even amid crisis and unrest. Its central claim is that subjecting social life to the profit imperative has produced abstract, impersonal forms of power that are historically distinctive. Mau builds on a critical reconstruction of Karl Marx's unfinished critique of political economy, together with a wide range of contemporary Marxist theory. The philosopher Søren Mau explains how the logic of capital grips society ever more tightly by continually reshaping the material conditions in which social reproduction takes place. Along the way, the book engages with classical and current debates on the value form, crisis theory, biopolitics, social reproduction, humanism, logistics, agriculture, metabolism, the body, competition, technology, and relative surplus populations.
ISBN: 9781839763465
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