Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in this volume show that, in order to understand the dynamics governing the extraction of wealth under contemporary capitalism, we also need to consider the collective subjects implied in this operation at an institutional, juridical, moral, and psychic level. More than merely setting the scene for social and political struggle, Accumulation and Subjectivity reveals Latin America to be a cauldron for thought for a critique of political economy and radical political change beyond its borders. Combining reflections on political philosophy, intellectual history, narrative, law, and film from the colonial period to the present, it provides a new conceptual vocabulary rooted in the material specificity of the region and, for this very reason, potentially translatable to other historical contexts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of Marxism, Latin American literary and cultural studies, and the intellectual history of the left.
Edited by:
Karen Benezra
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781438487571
ISBN 10: 1438487576
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 01 March 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Marx in Latin America Karen Benezra Part I: Property and History 1. On Subsumption as Form and the Use of Asynchronies Massimiliano Tomba 2. ""I am he"": A History of Dispossession's Not-Yet-Present in Colonial Yucatán David Kazanjian 3. Latin American Marxism: History and Accumulation Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott 4. Accumulation as Total Conversion Karen Benezra Part II: Class and Totality 5. José Aricó and the Concept of Socioeconomic Formation Marcelo Starcenbaum 6. An Irresolvable Tension: The Part or the Whole? The Effects of the ""Crisis of Marxism"" in the Work of René Zavaleta Mercado Jaime Ortega Reyna 7. Class and Accumulation Pablo Pérez Wilson Part III: Sovereignty and Debt 8. The ""Insurgent Subject"" versus Accumulation by Dispossession in Álvaro García Linera and Jorge Sanjinés Irina Alexandra Feldman 9. Debt, Violence, and Subjectivity Alessandro Fornazzari 10. Psychotic Violence: Crime and Consumption in the Apocalyptic Phase of Capitalism Horacio Legrás 11. Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation, and Labor at the U.S./Mexico Border Abraham Acosta Part IV: The Subject and Nature 12. Marx's Theory of the Subject Bruno Bosteels 13. The Impasses of Environmentalism: Subjectivity and Accumulation in the World-Ecology Project Orlando Bentancor 14. ""Non-Capital"" and the Torsion of the Subject Gavin Walker Contributors Index"
Karen Benezra is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophy and Sciences of Art, at Leuphana University of L�neburg in Germany. She is the author of Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America.
Reviews for Accumulation and Subjectivity: Rethinking Marx in Latin America
"""This unique book productively works through a double bind central to both Latin American studies and Marxism: the struggle between structure (accumulation) and agency (subjectivity). The volume consistently attends to and elaborates on such key contexts as socioeconomic formation, formal subsumption, and primitive accumulation. It is rare to find an edited collection of essays that address the same problems from such richly diverse perspectives."" — Emilio Sauri, coeditor of Literature and the Global Contemporary ""This is a splendid volume, the likes of which (to my knowledge) have yet to be published in English. It offers a unique, capacious reading in Latin American culture, politics, and intellectual history by—retooling a phrase from the introduction— rediscovering Marx and Marxist theory from Latin America. Adopting a capacious and overlapping approach, this book will enrich the bibliographies of scholars across a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences."" — Samuel Steinberg, author of Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968"
