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Powers of the Mind : Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis.
The Marxist conception of the division between mental and manual labor is a critical yet unrecognized aspect of contemporary political struggles. Departing from this novel argument, Michael Bray traces the conceptual and socio-political history of this labor division and emphasizes how the forms of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcipt Verlag,
2019.
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| Colección: | Edition Politik.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Cover; Content; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Political Utopias of the Empowered Mind; The Struggle for the Knowledge Economy; Utopias of the 99%; The General Intellect; The Cognitariat; The function of mental labor; Chapter 2 The Division in Theory; The original class relation; Tendencies of the division; The political-ideological character of the division; Mental labor as process and struggle; Chapter 3 The Labors of Progressivism; Hegemony born in the factory; The professional, ascendant; Class Powers and the Political Project of Progressivism; Perceptions of the governed
- Chapter 4 Mental Labor Declares WarThe rationality of (cold) war; To the victor, the spoils; The legitimacy of war; The coercive supplement to social reproduction; Happiness as a wartime industry; Chapter 5 The Final Progressive Settlement Racial Liberalism and Its Discontents; Professionalizing antiracism; Postracialism and the white working class; The mental labors of whiteness; Splinters of race and class; Chapter 6 Machines of Mental Labor; Algorithms, self-regulation, and mental labor; Powers of the machinic mind; Finance and the power of risk; Stack and state
- Chapter 7 No One Has Yet Determined What a Mind Can DoPower and theory; The renewal of workers' inquiry; Populism as common sense politics; Powers of the Mind; Bibliography; Index