Accumulation and Subjectivity: Rethinking Marx in Latin America

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Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in this volume show that, in order to understand the dynamics governing the extraction of wealth under contemporary capitalism, we also need to consider the collective subjects implied in this operation at an institutional, juridical, moral, and psychic level. More than merely setting the scene for social and political struggle, Accumulation and Subjectivity reveals Latin America to be a cauldron for thought for a critique of political economy and radical political change beyond its borders. Combining reflections on political philosophy, intellectual history, narrative, law, and film from the colonial period to the present, it provides a new conceptual vocabulary rooted in the material specificity of the region and, for this very reason, potentially translatable to other historical contexts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of Marxism, Latin American literary and cultural studies, and the intellectual history of the left. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Marx in Latin America Notes Works Cited Archival Material Part I. Property and History Chapter One: On Subsumption as Form and the Use of Asynchronies Formal Subsumption as Form Forms of Subsumption and their Temporalities Asynchronisms and the Paths of Emancipation Notes Works Cited Chapter Two: “I am he”: A History of Dispossession’s Not-Yet-Present in Colonial Yucatán From Originary Accumulation to Dispossession Juan Patricio A History of the Not-Yet-Present Notes Works Cited Chapter Three: Latin American Marxism: History and Accumulation Introduction Capitalism’s Philosophy of History Anti-imperialism and Dependency Accumulation and History Notes Works Cited Chapter Four: Accumulation as Total Conversion Subsumption The Possession of the Land Total Conversion Notes Works Cited Part II. Class and Totality Chapter Five: José Aricó and the Concept of Socioeconomic Formation Introduction Rereading Marx Echoes of a Contemporary Debate Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter Six: An Irresolvable Tension: The Part or the Whole? The Effects of the “Crisis of Marxism” in the Work of René Zavaleta Mercado “Western Marxism” The Forces of Production Are the Relations of Production Temporality and Articulation Notes Works Cited Chapter Seven: Class and Accumulation Notes Works Cited Part III. Sovereignty and Debt Chapter Eight: The “Insurgent Subject” versus Accumulation by Dispossession in Álvaro García Linera and Jorge Sanjinés The Limitations and Achievements of MAS García Linera on Primitive Accumulation and Subjectivity 1781–2003: The Historical Depth of the Anticolonial and Anti-Imperialist Subject in Insurgentes Conclusion: The Articulation of Theory and Aesthetics Notes Works Cited Filmography Chapter Nine: Debt, Violence, and Subjectivity Piglia, Gombrowicz, and the Debt Subject Pedro Lemebel: The Consumption of Uneven Development and the “Arqueología del desecho” Notes Works Cited Chapter Ten: Psychotic Violence: Crime and Consumption in the Apocalyptic Phase of Capitalism Crisis in the Real Women, Sovereignty, and the Second State Good Father, Bad Father Ordinary Psychoses In the Order of Praxis Notes Works Cited Chapter Eleven: Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation, and Labor at the U.S./Mexico Border Notes Works Cited Part IV. The Subject and Nature Chapter Twelve: Marx’s Theory of the Subject Positing the Presuppositions: The Hegelian Dialectic as the Logic of Capitalism Not Only as (Incomplete) Substance but also as (Divided) Subject: The Post-Hegelian Consensus Beyond the Self-Made Subject: A Metahistory of the Transcendental Turn Notes Works Cited Chapter Thiirteen: The Impasses of Environmentalism: Subjectivity and Accumulation in the World-Ecology Double Internality and Metabolic Exchange The Subject-outofjoint and the Metabolic Loop Subject and Drive Drive and Capitalism Notes Works Cited Chapter Fourteen: “Non-Capital” and the Torsion of the Subject “Non-Capital” The Torsion of the Subject Notes Works Cited Contributors Index