Beyond the periphery of the skin : rethinking, remaking and reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism / Silvia Federici.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Federici, Silvia, author.

Series:

Kairos (PM Press (Firm))

Kairos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM Press, 2020.

Summary:

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, institutional or anti-systemic, by which “the body” is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been “enclosed” and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?

Contents:

PART ONE; One. Lecture One The Body, Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Labor Power; Two. Lecture Two "Body Politics" in the Feminist Revolt; Three. Lecture Three The Body in Today's Reproductive Crisis; PART TWO; Four. On the Body, Gender, and Performance; Five.Remaking Our Bodies, Remaking the World?; Six.Surrogate Motherhood: A Gift of Life or Maternity Denied?; Seven.With Philosophy, Psychology, and Terror: Transforming Bodies into Labor Power; Eight. Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain; Nine.Mormons in Space Revisited with George Caffentzis; PART FOUR; Ten.In Praise of the Dancing Body.

Notes:

This edition first published in Canada in 2020 by Between the Lines 401 Richmond Street West, Studio 281, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8, Canada

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629637068

9781629637761

1629637769

OCLC:

1124923058