Marx, Silk Poems, and the Pretext of Qualities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4777436 |
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| Authors | Kathryn Crim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 151 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-126 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2020.151.5.96 |
| OpenAlex | W4252797841 |
| Language | EN |
Karl Marx's comments on silk manufacture in "The Working Day" chapter of Capital, volume 1, demonstrate how "quality"-usually associated with "use value"-has been mobilized by capital to naturalize industrialized labor. Putting his insight into conversation with a recent multimedia poetic project, Jen Bervin's Silk Poems (2016-17), this essay examines the homology between, on the one hand, poetry's avowed task of fitting form to content and, on the other, the ideology of labor that fits specific bodies to certain materials and tasks
Aesthetics · Art · Conversation · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Pretext · SILK · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Highly cited | No |
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