For the May 9th meeting, we will cover Chapters 15 (second half) through 24. Here Marx further develops his discussion of collective labor and class formation begun in the previous few chapters and fleshes out his thinking on wages and the production of surplus value. These chapters, which engage with how capital distinguishes “productive” and “unproductive” labor, should resonate with the discussion we had during our last meeting about gender, unpaid domestic labor, and other forms of affective (or more broadly “immaterial”) labor that may or may not be paid.

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Facilitator Travis Sands adds:
For those who may be interested, please email me to receive a pdf of the Gayatri Spivak article (“Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value”) I referenced in the last meeting—it’s dense, but for me in my work/thinking serves as one of the more consequential engagements with value in Marx/Marxism.

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