Theorists have often returned to the work of Marx, to interpret and better understand global developments and current political and economic crisis. In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects combines an attempt to develop a specific reading of Marx with a set of interventions on high stakes topics in contemporary critical debates. Sandro Mezzadra offers a close reading of Marx on the ‘production of subjectivity’ as a crucial test for assessment of some of the most important Marxian concepts and of their potential for grasping the present, from the point of view of radical transformation.
Sandro Mezzadra is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna.
Marx References / Introduction to the English Edition / Preface / Chapter One: Marx Beyond Marxism / Chapter Two: Production of Subjectivity / Chapter Three: A Twofold Beginning / Chapter Four: The Subject of History, the Subject in History / Chapter Five: Living Labour / Chapter Six: Hobbesian Spectres / Chapter Seven: Labour Power / Chapter Eight: Class (Struggle) / Chapter Nine: The Political Form at Last Discovered / Chapter Ten: Marx in Algiers / Conclusion / Appendix: Primitive Accumulation / Bibliography / Index
In this book, we find a displaced Marx: at his own kitchen table. Displacement became a method: Marx beyond Marxism, to be found today in a new world which he however foresaw. Marx’s kitchen table which this beautiful text enables us to enter, is where proletarian bodies are in the making and the possibility of their becoming a revolutionary movement is ever present.