Author: Sandro Mezzadra File Type: pdf Theorists have often returned to the work of Marx, to interpret and better understand global developments and current political and economic crisis. In the Marxian Workshops Producing Subjects combines an attempt to develop a specific reading of Marx with a set of interventions on high stakes topics in contemporary critical debates. Sandro Mezzadra offers a close reading of Marx on the production of subjectivity as a crucial test for assessment of some of the most important Marxian concepts and of their potential for grasping the present, from the point of view of radical transformation. **Review In this book, we find a displaced Marx at his own kitchen table. Displacement became a method Marx beyond Marxism, to be found today in a new world which he however foresaw. Marxs kitchen table which this beautiful text enables us to enter, is where proletarian bodies are in the making and the possibility of their becoming a revolutionary movement is ever present. (Veronica Gago, Professor of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires) It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an intellectual event to have Sandro Mezzadras theoretical work on Marx published in English. No one brings together the global struggles for liberation into a theoretical framework of contemporary capitalism more deftly than Mezzadra. Under his guidance we come to see that the battle against capitalism has now been joined by most of the planet expanding rather than erasing the old antagonism, and proliferating in the creative forms of life that refuse to submit. (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education, Singapore Management University) New figures of labor and new machines for the extraction of surplus values Sandro Mezzadras Marxian research is located between these two poles. This is an open work, open in a double sense. Firstly from a genealogical point of view, since it sums up and further develops the best accomplishments of Marx studies in the last fifty years from the angle of a critical analysis of the formation of the proletariat into a class. In the Marxian Workshops is an open work, secondly, because it invites its readers to participate in the solution of this latter riddle this is what production of subjectivity means here, the revolutionary subjectivation that Marx continues to claim from anybody interested in his work. (Antonio Negri, Co-Author of Empire) Politics is being produced in the Marxian workshops. Sandro Mezzadra turns the discussion on Marx from the usual scholarly mode of textual certitudes to a provisional, tension-filled, dialectical exercise, which has the capacity to suggest new angles, possibilities, and new problems of articulating transformative politics. Such politics is never given. It is produced. Political ideas can only be workshops for such production. That perhaps is the way by which Marx can be drawn out of the sedate and satisfied chambers of western academic thinking to the violent storms blowing in the broader world. (Ranabir Samaddar, Director of the Calcutta Research Group) About the Author Sandro Mezzadra is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna.

Author: Clinton A. Hutton File Type: pdf Caribbean Reasonings Rupert Lewis and the Black Intellectual Tradition recounts the work of a renowned scholar and activist who has made an indelible mark on Caribbean life. Through a collection of academic papers and personal reflections, primarily proceeding from a 2013 conference, some of the leading contemporary political minds in the Caribbean have converged in this volume to put forward a collection of essays that detail Rupert Lewiss impact on issues such as black nationalism and identity, social and racial equality, and Caribbean and human liberation. The volume boldly highlights Lewiss earnest study of the political teachings of Marcus Garvey, Walter Rodney and the African-Caribbean experience, to promote understanding the realities of blackness and to chart a course forward for African people throughout the diaspora. It also expertly details his contribution to the discourse on the Grenada Revolution, Caribbean sovereignty, globalisation, capitalism, radicalism in art and the media, and black feminism in political activism. In a career spanning decades, Rupert Lewis has amassed a legacy which details his rise from a student activist at the UWI to a stalwart of Caribbean political thought who has guided the Department of Government at Mona, the Institute of Jamaica and its African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica as well as institutionalising Liberty Hall and the Museum of Marcus Garvey among other contributions. **