Marx After Growth 4: The Class Relation (Sean O'Brien, the87press)

Описание: This fourth and final lecture of Marx After Growth examines the capitalist class relation: what it is, how it's reproduced, and how the dynamics of its reproduction have important implications for how we conceive of the production of gender, the ascriptions of race, and the shifting horizons of cycles of struggle, especially as the reproduction of the class relation is thrown into crisis in the late twentieth century. Working first through Marx's account of simple reproduction, the lecture then pivots to explore the Marxist feminist critique of social reproduction, before moving to consider the racialization of unemployment and the political significance of riot in a low-growth economy.

Sean O’Brien is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. His research has appeared in Cultural Critique, Discourse, Science Fiction Studies, and Bloomsbury’s Companion to Marx, and is forthcoming in Crossings. He is co-editor of ‘Demos: We Have Never Been Democratic’, a special issue of the visual culture journal Public based on work developed during the 2015 Banff Research in Culture residency. His criticism has also appeared in a number of electronic journals and literary magazines, including GUTS Magazine, The Capilano Review, Vector, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Current projects include a collaborative book, Anti-Social Reproduction, and a monograph, Precarity and the Historicity of the Present: American Culture from Boom to Crisis.


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