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Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin Books

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

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"More than ever, "the body" is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements: all look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis generated by the neoliberal turn in capitalist development and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. In Beyond the Periphery of the Skin, lifelong activist and bestselling author Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine, expanding on one of the main subjects of her first book, Caliban and the Witch. In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for contemporary radical political projects. What does "the body" mean, today, as a category of social/political action? What are the processes, institutional or anti-systemic, by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been "enclosed" and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?"--Provided by publisher.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2020-01-01
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
PM Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1629637068
ISBN13:
9781629637068
Weight:
143 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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