Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia - Softcover

Mitropoulos, Angela

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ISBN 10: 1570272565 ISBN 13: 9781570272561

Verlag: Minor Compositions, 2013

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Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding the complex shifts of post-

Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contracts, and through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. It focuses on the salient question of capitalist futurity in order to highlight the simultaneously intimate, economic and political limits to venturing beyond its horizon.
In capitalist history, as well as in philosophy, finance, migration politics, and theories of globalisation,

contagions simultaneously real, symbolic and imagined recur. Where political economy understood

value in terms of labour, Contract and Contagion argues that the law of value is the law of the household

(oikonomia).
In this book Angela Mitropoulos takes up current and historical theories of affect, intimacy, labour and

speculation to elaborate a queer, anti-racist, feminist Marxism, which is to say: a Marxism preoccupied not with the seizure of opportunity to take power, form government, or represent an identity, but a Marxism which partakes of the uncertain movements that break the bonds of fate.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Minor Compositions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1570272565
• ISBN 13: 9781570272561
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270