Immanent Externalities

Rebecca Carson is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She has published widely on Marx and reproduction, including the articles "Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination" and "Non-capitalist Domination, Rentierism and the Politics of Class".

“Carson blazes a path with a crucial, rigorous analysis that combines social reproduction theory with the capital-logic approach, proving rather than showing the contradiction between capital and life.”—Marina Vishmidt“Carson's work is an original, and scholarly, investigation of the relation between social reproduction and capital's reproduction of itself.” —Christopher J. Arthur, author of The Spector of Capital“Carson combines erudition and insight, conceptual sophistication and bold engagement, to offer an understanding of the new capitalist logic where the violent clash of extremes: the "life" of financial accumulation and the "life" of bodily reproduction, is pushed to its limits. Her theory will be passionately discussed, for the greatest benefit of scholars and activists.” —Etienne Balibar

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of DominationIntroduction1.1 Fictitious Capital1.2 Fictitious Capital and Value Form1.3 Social Reproduction and Personal Domination2 Money FormIntroduction2.1 Political Subjectivity and the Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic2.2 Money as Money3 Fetish CharacterIntroduction3.1 The Presupposition of Reification and The Money Form3.2 Personal and Impersonal Forms of Domination4 Time and Schemas of ReproductionIntroduction4.1 The Circulation of Capital4.2 Interruptions and Differential Temporal Forms within Capital’s Reproduction4.3 Marx’s Presentation of The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuit4.4 Marx’s Presentation of The Turnover of Capital4.5 Marx’s Presentation of the Reproduction and Circulation of Total Social Capital4.6 The Three Circuits of Capital4.7 The Role of the Credit System within Capital’s Reproduction4.8 Expanded Reproduction4.9 A Complete Concept of Money for Understanding Capital’s Reproduction4.10 Non-capitalist Variables within Capital’s ReproductionConclusion5 Marx’s Social Theory of ReproductionIntroduction5.1 Capital’s Life Process5.2 Intersubjective Structures5.3 The Category of Reproduction in Hegel’s The Science of Logic5.4 Concrete Reproduction of Human Life and Nature5.5 Marx’s Two Concepts of LifeConclusionBibliographyIndex