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Biopolitics, Marxism and Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"

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Nealon, Jeffrey

Abstract

This essay seeks to supplement Thomas Piketty's work in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by exploring connections between Piketty and Antonio Negri's post-Marxist work. Piketty tries to excise consideration of so called "human capital” from his analysis, whereas Negri puts such human, creative ... view more

This essay seeks to supplement Thomas Piketty's work in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by exploring connections between Piketty and Antonio Negri's post-Marxist work. Piketty tries to excise consideration of so called "human capital” from his analysis, whereas Negri puts such human, creative or what he calls "biopolitical” considerations front and center in his analysis of contemporary capitalism, opening up fresh points of intervention that can help us to understand where capitalism is headed in the future. As the nature of capital continues to mutate today, so must our responses to it. In Negri's biopolitical world, performative subjectivity or human capital finds its charge not through making products and commodities, but in the ongoing project of making ourselves. So aesthetics and the concerns of the humanities are not merely epiphenomenal, reflective, representational, or superstructural discourses (as Piketty understands them); but the arts and humanities - the powers of creative everyday subjectivity- remain a crucial linchpin for understanding the workings of (and against) capital in the twenty-first century.... view less

Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
General Concepts, Major Hypotheses and Major Theories in the Social Sciences

Free Keywords
Human capital; Contemporary capitalism; Thomas Piketty; Antonio Negri; Biopolitics

Document language
English

Publication Year
2021

Page/Pages
p. 64-83

Journal
Sociologija vlasti / Sociology of power, 33 (2021) 1

Issue topic
Capitalism in the 21st Century

ISSN
2074-0492

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0


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