Poetics of Value

Elliot C. Mason is a postdoctoral researcher, translator, and activist who has written widely on poetry and politics. Most recently, he is the co-editor, with Valentina Moro, of Judith Butler and Marxism: The Radical Feminism of Performativity, Vulnerability, and Care.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Survival 1 The Primacy of Insurgency 2 Marxist Temporalities 3 The Excess of Subjects 4 Poetic Temporalities 5 The Coming Poets 6 The Coming ChaptersPart 1 Subjects of ValueIntroduction to Part 1 1 Critique of the Temporality of Value 1 The Operation of Form-Determination 2 Marxian Primacies 3 The Primacy of Value 4 Cultural Presents 5 Antagonistic Primacies 6 Moten’s General Antagonism 7 The Routes and Roots of Survival 2 Alli Warren and the Production of Subjectivity 1 Value’s Poetry 2 Determining Forms 3 The Real Abstraction That You Are 4 The Capitalist Abolition of Subjectivity 5 The Particulars of Water and Power 6 Let We Be Moral 7 The Structure of Belief 8 Life before Life 9 San Francisco Renaissance 10 The Emotive Poetics of Sociality 3 Rob Halpern and the Crisis of America 1 Before the Pain 2 In the Face of Failure 3 Poeticising Crisis 4 The Masquerade of Profit 5 Constant Interruption 6 The Subject’s Patiency 7 The Limits of FreedomPart 2 Socialities of ValueIntroduction to Part 2 4 Rowan Ricardo Phillips and the Form of Friendship 1 Moving Bodies 2 Rectifying Inclinations 3 Upright Reasons 4 Inclining Rectitude 5 Friends before Form 6 Plans for Survival 7 A Moving Abstraction in Blu 8 Citing Friends 9 Planning Plans 5 Fred Moten and the Primary Antagonism 1 Assembling a Friendship 2 Listening to B 3 Opening to Others 4 Calling on the Subject 5 Misinterpellating 6 Temporalities of Insurgency 6 Speculations on the Poetics of Value 1 Giving an Account of One’s Theory 2 In the Space Left 3 In the Left Space 4 The Excess Left of Poetry Afterword: The Primacy of Insurgency Appendix: Study Group for the Undercommons Bibliography Index