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In the Marxian Workshops

Producing Subjects

By: Sandro Mezzadra

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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.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786603608

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The Rest and the West

Capital and Power in a Multipolar World

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

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The Rest and the West

Capital and Power in a Multipolar World

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

THE FIRST AND LONG-AWAITED INSIDER BIOGRAPHY OF LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA One of seven children raised in abject poverty by a single parent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva acquired his politics on the hard road of personal suffering, inspired by the selfless example of his mother. He started work at the age of eight and didn’t learn to read for another two years. At twenty, he lost his wife and child. A union organizer in the 1980s, when Brazil still languished under military dictatorship, Lula helped form the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT or Brazilian Workers’ Party). His first steps in politics were faltering. He came last running for governor of São Paulo and would have retreated from electoral politics entirely were it not for the intercession of Fidel Castro. More setbacks were to follow, but in 2003 Lula was elected president. He became one of the most popular politicians not only in Brazilian history but on the planet. His seven years in office saw millions of his compatriots lifted out of poverty. Disqualified from running for president in 2018, he was subsequently sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. That sentence was quashed in 2019, allowing Lula to defeat Jair Bolsonaro and win a third term. Leading Brazilian journalist Fernando Morais has enjoyed direct, frank, and frequent access to his subject for decades. The result is a biography that paints a human portrait of grandeur and complexity.

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Verso Books

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1804296074

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The Politics of Operations

Excavating Contemporary Capitalism

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

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The Politics of Operations

Excavating Contemporary Capitalism

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital—which they theorize as a direct political actor—operates through the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects as well as through the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life. Mezzadra and Neilson present a capacious analysis of a wide range of issues, from racial capitalism, the convergence of neoliberalism and nationalism, and Marx's concept of aggregate capital to the financial crisis of 2008 and how colonialism, empire, and globalization have shaped the modern state since World War II. In so doing, they illustrate the distinctive rationality and logics of contemporary capitalism while calling for a politics based on collective institutions that exist outside the state.

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Duke University Press

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147800326X

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The Rest and the West

Capital and Power in a Multipolar World

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

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The Rest and the West

Capital and Power in a Multipolar World

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict has taken on a new intensity. The Rest and the West locates the origins of this development in the turbulent dynamics of the capitalist world market. Rather than reducing global conflict to a matter of great power rivalries or the process of economic decoupling, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate the increasing centrality of war to capital operations and to the transformation of capital ism. The goal is to forge a theory of imperialism adequate to a world in which the 'rest' no longer provides a putative unity that defines and opposes the 'West'.

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Verso Books

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1804296066

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In the Marxian Workshops

Producing Subjects

By: Sandro Mezzadra

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Producing Subjects

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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various geographical scales, illustrating their theoretical arguments with illuminating case studies drawn from Europe, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and elsewhere. Mezzadra and Neilson approach the border not only as a research object but also as an epistemic framework. Their use of the border as method enables new perspectives on the crisis and transformations of the nation-state, as well as powerful reassessments of political concepts such as citizenship and sovereignty.

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Duke University Press

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0822377543

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9780822377542

Foucault's Politics of Philosophy

Power, Law, and Subjectivity

By: Sandro Chignola

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Foucault's Politics of Philosophy

Power, Law, and Subjectivity

By: Sandro Chignola

Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance. This theme, Sandro Chignola argues here, is the key to understanding four features of Foucault’s work over this period. First, it foregrounds its immediate political character. Second, it demonstrates that Foucault’s "Greek trip" also aims at a politics of the subject that is able to face the processes of the governmentalization of power. Third, it makes clear that the idea of the "government of the self" is – drawing on an ethics of intellectual responsibility that is Weberian in origin – an answer to the processes that, within neoliberal governance, produce the subject as an individual (as a consumer, a market agent, an entrepreneur, and so on). Fourth, the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’ implies that Foucault’s research was never simply scholarly or neutral; but rather was characterized by a specific political position. Against recent interpretations that risk turning Foucault into a scholar, here then Foucault is re-presented as a key figure for jurisprudential and political-philosophical research.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351724142

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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

By: Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson

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Book's by Sandro Mezzadra

In the Marxian Workshops

In the Marxian Workshops

The Rest and the West

The Rest and the West

The Politics of Operations

The Politics of Operations

The Rest and the West

The Rest and the West

In the Marxian Workshops

In the Marxian Workshops

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

Foucault's Politics of Philosophy

Foucault's Politics of Philosophy

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

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