Body Productive

Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The Body Productive represents a new and radical approach to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body. Self-evident, natural, biological - this is how we think of the body on an everyday basis. However, this supposedly most direct aspect of our being may in fact be a primary site of socio-economic mediation and ideological reproduction. How are bodies produced under capitalism? How, in turn, does capitalism make bodies productive? How is the body (and knowledge of the body) shaped by demands of production, consumption and exchange, and how can these logics be resisted, challenged and overcome?These are the questions at the heart of The Body Productive, a collection of original, radical new approaches to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body from an international group of scholars and activists. Taking inspiration from the neglected theoretical work of François Guéry and Didier Deleule, and bridging Marxist and Foucauldian traditions, this book rethinks the relationships between the biological and the social; the body and the mind; power and knowledge; discipline and control.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780755639519

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomiska system inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Steffan Blayney works for a trade union in London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.Joey Hornsby completed her PhD in 2021. Her work was recently published in Nottingham French Studies.Savannah Whaley is a lecturer in theory and performance at King's College London, UK.

Recensioner i media

If Marx taught us that capitalist labour ‘mortifies’ the body of the worker, this book is an urgent and critical analysis of that process of mortification. The book refocuses our attention to how the body is both produced and becomes productive under capital’s strident demands upon it. But the authors urge us to consider not the passive trope of bodily resilience when it comes to the global working class, but the constant running script of bodily resistance as workers hide from, defy, or in some moments, dismantle capitalist logic.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Rethinking Capitalism, Work, and the BodySteffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby & Savannah Whaley2. The Productive Body Revisited François Guéry2. The Productive Body Revisited Dan Taylor4. Corporeal and Abstract: Is There a 'Left Biopolitics' of Bodies?Marina Vishmidt5. Empty Promises: The Financialization of LabourPhil Jones6. The Dialectical Body: Bringing Science Back into SocialismGraham Jones7. Neither Appropriated nor Expropriated: Notes Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology of the Productive Body Arianna Introna8. The Quantified Self, the Ideology of Health, and FatDawn Woolley9. The Artefact of Losing: The (Bio)poetics of MiscarriageHelen Charman & Christopher Law10. Reproductive Data-Bodies: Privacy, Inequality and Anti-Abortion Politics in the Age of Platform CapitalismGrace Tillyard11. Algorithmic Capitalism, the New Machinofacture and the Productive BodyStephen Shapiro & Philip Barnard