Thinking through the Home

Work, Rent, and the Reproduction of Society

Bibliographic Data

ID4188268
AuthorsMai Taha (0000-0002-7313-4048, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume90
Issue4
Pages837-858
Publication date2023-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/sor.2023.a916356
OpenAlexW4390592049
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This essay explores the tensions between two positions on revolutionary subjectivity. The first confines it to the production process and the creation of value, and the second ignores the value-form as economistic Marxist orthodoxy. I consider a third position that tries to capture the reach and open-endedness of capitalism, and in the process imagine a more expansive conception of revolutionary subjectivity. Accounting for the vastness of capitalism's reach entails thinking with and beyond the production of value-about the preconditions that make the wage-relation possible-that is the reproduction of society, broadly conceived. This not only encompasses reproductive labor but also implicates broader gender and race relations through precarity and the gig economy, as well as struggles over homes and housing, health care, and border crossing

Biology · Capitalism · Economics · Epistemology · Expansive · Geography · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Production (economics) · Reproduction · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Surplus value · Value (mathematics) · Wage labour · Gender Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism