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History and Obstinacy (Hardcover)
Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt, Devin Fore, Richard Langston, Cyrus Shahan
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An epochal archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated
in the human body over the last two thousand years. If Marx's opus
Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of
production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens
when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead
labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result
is Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt's History and Obstinacy, a
groundbreaking archaeology of the labor power that has been
cultivated in the human body over the last two thousand years.
Supplementing classical political economy with the insights of
fields ranging from psychoanalysis and phenomenology to
evolutionary anthropology and systems theory, History and Obstinacy
reaches down into the deepest strata of unconscious thought,
genetic memory, and cellular life to examine the complex ecology of
expropriation and resistance. First published in German 1981, and
never before translated into English, this epochal collaboration
between Kluge and Negt has now been edited, expanded, and updated
by the authors in response to global developments of the last
decade to create an entirely new analysis of "the capitalism within
us."
The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse,
designating a space for political action. But is this a single
authoritative and universal space in which various positions
compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local
spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's
groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of
experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an
abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture. With new,
up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.
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