The Micro-Politics of Capital

<p><b>Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.</b></p><p>What is the relation between the economy or the mode of production and culture beliefs and desires? How is it possible to think of these relations without reducing one to the other or effacing one for the sake of the other? To answer these questions The Micro-Politics of Capital re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogations of subjectivity in the works of Althusser Deleuze Guattari Foucault and Negri. Jason Read suggests that what characterizes contemporary capitalism is the intimate intersection of the production of commodities with the production of desire beliefs and knowledge.</p>