The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present

By Jason Read

Book Overview

Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.

What is the relation between the economy, or the mode of production, and culture, beliefs, and desires? How is it possible to think of these relations without reducing one to the other, or effacing one for the sake of the other? To answer these questions, The Micro-Politics of Capital re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogations of subjectivity in the works of Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Negri. Jason Read suggests that what characterizes contemporary capitalism is the intimate intersection of the production of commodities with the production of desire, beliefs, and knowledge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079145844X
• ISBN13: 9780791458440
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher