Supersuming Subsumption: Theory and Politics

Marco Briziarelli Ph.D. (2012), University of Milan-Bicocca, is an associate professor in Sociology. He has published monographs and many articles on media theory, social movements and digital labour.

• 1 All That Is Solid about Subsumption Melts into the Air1 A Tentative Definition2 The Question of Subsumption: An Incomplete but Totalising Abstraction3 Subsumptive Relations as Theory of Power Relations: Unstable Hegemony4 The Structure of the Book: Subsumptive Relations and Subsumptive Scenarios2 Defining a Legacy1 Defining Subsumption: A First Approximation to a Logic and Material Tension2 Critical Genealogy: The Kantian–Hegelian Trajectory3 The Legacy of Kant and Hegel in Marx4 Systemic Dispossession and Systemic Subsumption5 The Marginal Centrality of Subsumption in Marx6 Marx’s Multiple Subsumptions: Formal, Real, Hybrid and Ideal7 Selective Traditions of Subsumptions: Two Main Narratives of Totalisation3 From Subsumption to Subsumptive Relations1 The Terrain of Class Struggle Relations2 Subsumptive Relations and Hegemony3 Integral and Welfare State4 The Legal Hegemonic Apparatus5 Unfreedom of Labour4 Determinate Supersumption: Molar and Molecular1 Molar Determinate Supersumption2 Molecular Determinate Supersumption5 Subsuming Communication: The Rising of the Translation Machine and Data-Subjects/Objects1 Communication: Relational Labour and Labour of Relations2 Translatability and Translational Labour3 Digital Platforms as Translation Machines4 Who Is Exactly a Translational Worker…?5 Data Subjects and Data Objects6 Active Supersumptive Politics: Freire and the 150-Hours Laboratory on Communication6 Domesticated Living Bodies and the Social Space of Subsumption1 Space and Subsumption2 Covid-19 and Determinate Supersumption3 Digital Abstract Space4 The Contradictory Facets of Domestication, or Subsumption as Always7 Conclusions: Two ‘Futures’ of Work1 The ‘First Future of Work’: Remote Working and Class Relations2 Another Future of Work, or Cryptocurrency as Technological FetishBibliographyIndex of NamesIndices of Subjects