The Body Productive
eBook - ePub

The Body Productive

Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Body Productive

Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body

About this book

The Body Productive represents a new and radical approach to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body. Self-evident, natural, biological - this is how we think of the body on an everyday basis. However, this supposedly most direct aspect of our being may in fact be a primary site of socio-economic mediation and ideological reproduction. How are bodies produced under capitalism? How, in turn, does capitalism make bodies productive? How is the body (and knowledge of the body) shaped by demands of production, consumption and exchange, and how can these logics be resisted, challenged and overcome? These are the questions at the heart of The Body Productive, a collection of original, radical new approaches to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body from an international group of scholars and activists. Taking inspiration from the neglected theoretical work of François Guéry and Didier Deleule, and bridging Marxist and Foucauldian traditions, this book rethinks the relationships between the biological and the social; the body and the mind; power and knowledge; discipline and control.

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Yes, you can access The Body Productive by Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, Savannah Whaley, Steffan Blayney,Joey Hornsby,Savannah Whaley in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Political Ideologies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780755639557
eBook ISBN
9780755639526
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Political Ideologies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: Rethinking capitalism, work and the body
  9. 2 The Productive Body revisited
  10. 3 Do we still not know what a body can do? Spinoza, Arendt and The Productive Body
  11. 4 Corporeal and abstract: Is there a ‘left biopolitics’ of bodies?
  12. 5 Empty promises: The financialization of labour
  13. 6 The dialectical body: Bringing science back into socialism
  14. 7 Neither appropriated nor expropriated: Notes towards an autonomist cripistemology of the productive body
  15. 8 The Quantified Self, the ideology of health and fat
  16. 9 The artefact of losing: The (bio)poetics of miscarriage
  17. 10 (Re)productive data-bodies: Privacy, inequality and anti-abortion politics in the age of tech-capitalism
  18. 11 Algorithmic capitalism, digital machinofacture and the productive body
  19. Further reading
  20. Index
  21. Imprint