文档介绍：The Nature of Capital
We embrace virtuality, but long for authenticity. We rush into the future, but yearn for
the past. The Nature of Capital aims to explain this tension at the heart of the current
disturbance of the spatial and temporal coordinates of social life.
It does so by re-reading Marx and Foucault through the lens of critical realism,
overturning the received wisdom that their social theories are fundamentally
patible. The result is an illuminating synthesis between Marx’s ‘social relations of
production’ and Foucault’s ‘disciplinary power’, from which the author constructs a
model of the material cause of our capacity to act: capital, society’s ic code.
The book places Foucault’s concept of power at the heart of Marx’s analytic. The logic
of power and the law of value, the widening and ascending spirals of disciplinary
technologies and capital accumulation, interweave and adulterate each other. Foucault
explains the ‘how’ of power, Marx explains the ‘why’. Together, the book argues, they
define the operative logic of production relations at work shaping the condition of
postmodernity.
Original in conception and clearly written, this iconoclastic work will be ed by
students of, and researchers in, social, economic and political theory, anization
and management studies, and postmodernity.
Richard Marsden writes, edits and tutors at Athabasca University, Canada’s Open
University, where he is Associate Professor in Industrial Relations.
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