The body productive : rethinking capitalism, work and the body / edited by Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby and Savannah Whaley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whaley, Savannah, editor.

Hornsby, Joey, editor.

Blayney, Steffan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Philosophy.

Work--Philosophy.

Work.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction: rethinking capitalism, work and the body - Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby & Savannah Whaley

2. Marx's vision for our future - François Guéry

3. Do we still not know what a body can do? - J. D. Taylor

4. Abstract and incorporated: the body and its properties - Marina Vishmidt

5. Financialisaton and the promise of a productive body - Phil Jones

6. The dialectical body: bringing science back into socialism - Graham Jones

7. The invention of prostitution: sex work and unproductive labour in early socialist thought - Amelia Horgan

8. Memento mori: on the uses of The Productive Body for the development of an autonomist disability perspective - Arianna Introna

9. The quantified self, fat activism and the ideology of health - Dawn Woolley

10. From DSM to #wellness: diagnosis, wellbeing and productivity in the age of financial capitalism - Ana Carolina Minozzo

11. The (re)production of refugee bodies in the process of entering the European Union - Christina Gerantoni

12. The artefact of losing: the (bio)poetics of miscarriage - Helen Charman & Christopher Law

13. The quantified reproductive body: privacy, inequality and labour in digital spaces - Grace Tillyard

14. Algorithmic capitalism, the new machinofacture and The Productive Body - Stephen Shapiro & Philip Barnard

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7556-3954-5

0-7556-3953-7

0-7556-3952-9

OCLC:

1295020775