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. Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the reel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power & self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.
In the first in a new series on the channel, this video looks at the Introduction to Caliban & the Witch.
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Buy here!
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
TRANSCRIPT
CALIBAN & THE WITCH
HISTORY
