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In this important book, Rebecca Carson develops the concept of "immanent externalities" to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by-and necessary for-capitalist reproduction.
Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx's
Capital. In doing so, the book locates capitalism's fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination
Introduction
1.1 Fictitious Capital
1.2 Fictitious Capital and Value Form
1.3 Social Reproduction and Personal Domination
2 Money Form
Introduction
2.1 Political Subjectivity and the Monetary Link between Italian Operaismo and Capital Logic
2.2 Money as Money
3 Fetish Character
Introduction
3.1 The Presupposition of Reification and The Money Form
3.2 Personal and Impersonal Forms of Domination
4 Time and Schemas of Reproduction
Introduction
4.1 The Circulation of Capital
4.2 Interruptions and Differential Temporal Forms within Capital’s Reproduction
4.3 Marx’s Presentation of The Metamorphoses of Capital and Their Circuit
4.4 Marx’s Presentation of The Turnover of Capital
4.5 Marx’s Presentation of the Reproduction and Circulation of Total Social Capital
4.6 The Three Circuits of Capital
4.7 The Role of the Credit System within Capital’s Reproduction
4.8 Expanded Reproduction
4.9 A Complete Concept of Money for Understanding Capital’s Reproduction
4.10 Non-capitalist Variables within Capital’s Reproduction
Conclusion
5 Marx’s Social Theory of Reproduction
Introduction
5.1 Capital’s Life Process
5.2 Intersubjective Structures
5.3 The Category of Reproduction in Hegel’s The Science of Logic
5.4 Concrete Reproduction of Human Life and Nature
5.5 Marx’s Two Concepts of Life
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Rebecca Carson is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She has published widely on Marx and reproduction, including the articles "Fictitious Capital and the Re-emergence of Personal Forms of Domination" and "Non-capitalist Domination, Rentierism and the Politics of Class".
Summary
In this important book, Rebecca Carson develops the concept of "immanent externalities" to grasp the non-capitalist life processes produced by—and necessary for—capitalist reproduction. Immanent Externalities thus considers the category of reproduction by means of a philosophical re-reading of the three volumes of Marx's Capital. In doing so, the book locates capitalism's fundamental contradiction as that between the reproduction of profit-driven activity and ecologically situated human life, suggesting new orientations for theory and practice today.
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