Beyond the Periphery of the Skin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Periphery of the Skin write by Silvia Federici. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Beyond the Periphery of the Skin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. In Beyond the Periphery of the Skin, lifelong activist and best-selling author Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine, expanding on one of the main subjects of her first book, Caliban and the Witch. Building on three groundbreaking lectures that she delivered in San Francisco in 2015, Federici surveys the new paradigms that today govern how the body is conceived in the collective radical imagination, as well as the new disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for contemporary radical political projects. What does “the body” mean, today, as a category of social/political action? What are the processes by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been “enclosed” and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?
In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism
In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism write by John Holloway. This book was released on 2016-04-01. In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism is based on three recent lectures delivered by John Holloway at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The lectures focus on what anticapitalist revolution can mean today—after the historic failure of the idea that the conquest of state power was the key to radical change—and offer a brilliant and engaging introduction to the central themes of Holloway’s work. The lectures take as their central challenge the idea that “We Are the Crisis of Capital and Proud of It.” This runs counter to many leftist assumptions that the capitalists are to blame for the crisis, or that crisis is simply the expression of the bankruptcy of the system. The only way to see crisis as the possible threshold to a better world is to understand the failure of capitalism as the face of the push of our creative force. This poses a theoretical challenge. The first lecture focuses on the meaning of “We,” the second on the understanding of capital as a system of social cohesion that systematically frustrates our creative force, and the third on the proposal that we are the crisis of this system of cohesion. “His Marxism is premised on another form of logic, one that affirms movement, instability, and struggle. This is a movement of thought that affirms the richness of life, particularity (non-identity) and ‘walking in the opposite direction’; walking, that is, away from exploitation, domination, and classification. Without contradictory thinking in, against, and beyond the capitalist society, capital once again becomes a reified object, a thing, and not a social relation that signifies transformation of a useful and creative activity (doing) into (abstract) labor. Only open dialectics, a right kind of thinking for the wrong kind of world, non-unitary thinking without guarantees, is able to assist us in our contradictory struggle for a world free of contradiction.”—Andrej Grubačić, from his Preface
Babylon and Beyond
Babylon and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Babylon and Beyond write by Derek Wall. This book was released on 2005-10. Babylon and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history.
Beyond Price
Beyond Price - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Price write by J. David Velleman. This book was released on 2015-10-08. Beyond Price available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.
Against Race
Against Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Race write by Paul Gilroy. This book was released on 2000. Against Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He argues that the triumph of the image spells death to politics and reduces people to mere symbols."--BOOK JACKET.
