Karen Benezra is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophy and Sciences of Art, at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. She is the author of Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America.

"This unique book productively works through a double bind central to both Latin American studies and Marxism: the struggle between structure (accumulation) and agency (subjectivity). The volume consistently attends to and elaborates on such key contexts as socioeconomic formation, formal subsumption, and primitive accumulation. It is rare to find an edited collection of essays that address the same problems from such richly diverse perspectives." — Emilio Sauri, coeditor of Literature and the Global Contemporary"This is a splendid volume, the likes of which (to my knowledge) have yet to be published in English. It offers a unique, capacious reading in Latin American culture, politics, and intellectual history by—retooling a phrase from the introduction— rediscovering Marx and Marxist theory from Latin America. Adopting a capacious and overlapping approach, this book will enrich the bibliographies of scholars across a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences." — Samuel Steinberg, author of Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rethinking Marx in Latin AmericaKaren BenezraPart I: Property and History 1. On Subsumption as Form and the Use of AsynchroniesMassimiliano Tomba2. "I am he": A History of Dispossession's Not-Yet-Present in Colonial YucatánDavid Kazanjian3. Latin American Marxism: History and AccumulationSergio Villalobos-Ruminott4. Accumulation as Total ConversionKaren BenezraPart II: Class and Totality 5. José Aricó and the Concept of Socioeconomic FormationMarcelo Starcenbaum6. An Irresolvable Tension: The Part or the Whole? The Effects of the "Crisis of Marxism" in the Work of René Zavaleta MercadoJaime Ortega Reyna7. Class and AccumulationPablo Pérez WilsonPart III: Sovereignty and Debt 8. The "Insurgent Subject" versus Accumulation by Dispossession in Álvaro García Linera and Jorge SanjinésIrina Alexandra Feldman9. Debt, Violence, and SubjectivityAlessandro Fornazzari10. Psychotic Violence: Crime and Consumption in the Apocalyptic Phase of CapitalismHoracio Legrás11. Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation, and Labor at the U.S./Mexico BorderAbraham AcostaPart IV: The Subject and Nature 12. Marx's Theory of the SubjectBruno Bosteels13. The Impasses of Environmentalism: Subjectivity and Accumulation in the World-Ecology ProjectOrlando Bentancor14. "Non-Capital" and the Torsion of the SubjectGavin WalkerContributorsIndex