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How Capitalism Forms Our Lives (Hardcover)
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How Capitalism Forms Our Lives (Hardcover)
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By using the concept of capitalism as a "form of life", the authors
in this volume reconceive capitalism, its mechanisms and effects on
our bodies and on our common life. The idea that capitalism is more
than a discrete economic system and instead a "form of life" that
shapes our relationships with others, our sense of ourselves and
our capacities, practices, bodies, and actions in the material
world should be rather obvious. Yet efforts - whether through
criticism or policy remedies - to redress the vast inequalities,
inherent exploitation, alienation, and the manifold destructive
effects of capitalism on the environment, typically proceed without
grappling fully with the entwinement of the economic with the
social and cultural, much less the ethical, ontological, and
phenomenological. This volume proposes "form of life" as a
heuristic tool, connecting literatures that often remain isolated
from one another - the Frankfurt School, neo-materialism,
Wittgenstein's philosophy, Foucault's and Agamben's biopolitics,
and Marx's discussion of reproduction. In emphasizing economic
practices, as opposed to capitalism as a system, they conceive of
"the economic" as an integral and integrated dimension of life, and
thus develop new possibilities for critique. Viewing human beings
as "economic bios," provides a needed alternative to analyses that
position neoliberalism as an economic logic imposed upon the social
and cultural. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the Journal for Cultural Research.
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