{"title":"Living and Dying in the Age of COVID-19: Social Murder, Reproduction, and Rhetoric","authors":"M. R. Greene-May","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Situating this collection of essays within the global pandemic associated with COVID-19, the author returns to Marx and Engels to account for how the unhealthy history of capitalism they document transforms their writings into what Mark Neocleous terms a \"political economy of the dead.\" From this starting point, the author amplifies the importance of biopolitics, social reproduction, and rhetoric as important concepts for the future study of Marx and Marxism.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"46 1","pages":"126 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Critique","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0029","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Situating this collection of essays within the global pandemic associated with COVID-19, the author returns to Marx and Engels to account for how the unhealthy history of capitalism they document transforms their writings into what Mark Neocleous terms a "political economy of the dead." From this starting point, the author amplifies the importance of biopolitics, social reproduction, and rhetoric as important concepts for the future study of Marx and Marxism.
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Cultural Critique provides a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.