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"Beyond the Boundaries of the Body" Author: [Italy] Silvia Federici Publisher: Guangqi Bookstore
"Beyond the Boundaries of the Body" Author: [Italy] Silvia Federici Publisher: Guangqi Bookstore
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【Editor's recommendation】
☆From the #metoo movement to surrogacy, it directly hits the current pain points of women and social hot spots, and reveals the root causes of the structural problems behind them.
☆From cosmetic surgery to artificial intelligence and gene editing, we warn you about emerging medical technologies and reveal the hidden crises behind them.
☆Faced with the destruction and transformation of capitalism, writing is a body of resistance. Imagine a body that transcends boundaries, can connect with other living things on the earth, and reunite what has been torn apart by capitalism.
☆Dialogue with poststructuralists such as Foucault and Butler, summarize the experiences and problems of the contemporary feminist movement, and point out the shortcomings of "performance theory" and the traps of "identity politics".
☆ We specially invited Associate Professor Zhang Yin from the School of Philosophy of Fudan University to write a long introduction to fully present his thoughts and practical path. How should we understand Federici today?
【Content Introduction】
Can “informed consent” prevent sexual assault?
Can we regain control over our lives by having fewer or no children?
From medical beauty and surrogacy to gene editing, will new body modification technologies satisfy our desires, or will they turn us into experimental subjects for capital profit?
The book revolves around the transformation of the body under the capitalist system. The author first traces back how our bodies were transformed into working machines through various forms of coercion during the transition period of capitalism. This process is full of brutality, and women have suffered a double mechanization process.
The author then returns to the present. With the rapid innovation of medical technology, the body transformation of the new era - from disease treatment, medical beauty surgery to surrogacy - has gradually become a trend. What kind of danger is hidden behind this? The development of artificial intelligence capital requires the continuous improvement of human capabilities. Cloning, gene editing and gene transfer technologies seem to allow the future capitalist world to produce new forms of human life and select more capable people... In this case, how can we take back our ability to decide on our own bodies?
Federici shows us that capitalism turns the human body into a machine, separating us from each other and the earth. Only by transcending individual boundaries, connecting and interdependent, can we regain the power of our bodies, take back our collective power, and decide what kind of life we want.
About the Author
About the Author:
Silvia Federici (1942-), born in Italy, is a Marxist feminist theorist, social activist and scholar. She has taught at the University of Port Hart in Nigeria and Hofstra University in the United States. In 1972, she co-founded the International Feminist Collective and launched the "Wages for Housework Campaign". In the 1980s, she taught in Africa and established the Committee for Academic Freedom. Her research involves philosophy, feminist theory, women's history, education, culture, etc. Her major works include "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation", "Revolution from Zero: Housework, Reproduction and the Feminist Struggle", "Recharming the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons", "Wage Patriarchy", etc.
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