Recent allegations against entertainer Russell Brand have reawakened debates about due process of law, justice, punishment, the production of truth-values in relation to such allegations, & government/corporate control over what information is true and what is not-true. In this video we ask the question, how much process is due Russell Brand by: the state, corporations, and the public at-large? (VIEW MORE)
Blood & Gold: The Transition to Capitalism | Caliban & the Witch
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, Transition to Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology, The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History, The Price Revolution and the Criminalization of the Working Class, The Patriarchy of the Wage, and The Disciplining of Women
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
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This is NOT the Prophet Muhammad
What does it mean to write “This is not Muhammad” across a bluntly literal and blasphemous picture of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad? This video on aesthetics follows a similar trajectory to the essay written by Michel Foucault “This is not a Pipe” about a painting by painter Rene Magritte
Citations:
Foucault, Michel. This Is Not a Pipe. Translated by James A. Harkness, University of California Press, 2008. Buy here!
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The Patriarchy of the Wage | Caliban & the Witch
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Patriarchy of the Wage and the Disciplining of Women.
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
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The Immiseration of the Working Class | Caliban & the Witch
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Price Revolution, and the Pauperization & Criminalization of the Working Class
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History | Caliban & the Witch
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
The Death of Feudalism & The Birth of Capitalism | Caliban & the Witch
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, the Rise of Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.