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Author Bray, Michael.

Title Powers of the Mind : Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis.

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Edition Politik ; v. 53
Edition Politik.
Contents Intro; Cover; Content; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Political Utopias of the Empowered Mind; The Struggle for the Knowledge Economy; Utopias of the 99%; The General Intellect; The Cognitariat; The function of mental labor; Chapter 2 The Division in Theory; The original class relation; Tendencies of the division; The political-ideological character of the division; Mental labor as process and struggle; Chapter 3 The Labors of Progressivism; Hegemony born in the factory; The professional, ascendant; Class Powers and the Political Project of Progressivism; Perceptions of the governed
Chapter 4 Mental Labor Declares WarThe rationality of (cold) war; To the victor, the spoils; The legitimacy of war; The coercive supplement to social reproduction; Happiness as a wartime industry; Chapter 5 The Final Progressive Settlement Racial Liberalism and Its Discontents; Professionalizing antiracism; Postracialism and the white working class; The mental labors of whiteness; Splinters of race and class; Chapter 6 Machines of Mental Labor; Algorithms, self-regulation, and mental labor; Powers of the machinic mind; Finance and the power of risk; Stack and state
Chapter 7 No One Has Yet Determined What a Mind Can DoPower and theory; The renewal of workers' inquiry; Populism as common sense politics; Powers of the Mind; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Marxist conception of the division between mental and manual labor is a critical yet unrecognized aspect of contemporary political struggles. Departing from this novel argument, Michael Bray traces the conceptual and socio-political history of this labor division and emphasizes how the forms of control and organization articulated by that division in practices of production, democracy, racialization, and financialization are becoming increasingly important. Critiquing the left for its tendency to side implicitly with the powers of mental labor, Michael Bray shows that comprehending and challenging those powers is a pivotal task for anti-capitalist politics today.
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Subject Division of labor.
Division of labor.
Work -- Social aspects.
Work -- Social aspects.
Work -- Political aspects.
Work.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bray, Michael. Powers of the Mind : Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis. Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, ©2019 9783837641479
ISBN 3839441471
9783839441473 (electronic book)