History and ObstinacyAlexander Kluge and Oskar Negt

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History and Obstinacy Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt

Princeton University Press

2014

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781935408468/history-and-obstinacy

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If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Kluge and Negt’s History and Obstinacy, a breathtaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last 2,000 years…