{"id":3146,"date":"2025-03-23T06:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:37:21","slug":"rg-mute-compulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/rg-mute-compulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00f8ren Mau\u2019s Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital<\/em> (Verso, 2023) offers a compelling entry point for examining the exercise of power in our contemporary post-industrial world, moving beyond traditional frameworks of violence and ideology. Bringing together philosophical, economic, historical, and sociological perspectives, the book enriches both the reading experience and the discussions that follow.<\/p>\n

This activity is open to researchers and students\u2014whether affiliated with Praxis-CFUL or not<\/strong>\u2014who are interested in a deep analysis of political economy. Sessions will take place on Thursdays<\/strong> (except for Friday, May 2nd) from 12h30 to 14h00<\/strong> in Room Pedro Hispano<\/strong> (Department of Philosophy).<\/p>\n

Working language: English<\/p>\n

Co-organizers:<\/strong> Mariana Teixeira (mariana.o.teixeira [at] edu.ulisboa.pt) and Juana Polo L\u00f3pez (juana.lopez [at] edu.ulisboa.pt)<\/p>\n

More info here!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Program<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Session 1 |<\/strong> 27 March<\/p>\n

Introduction (pp. 1\u201319)<\/p>\n

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Session 2 |<\/strong> 3 April<\/p>\n

Part I: 1. Conceptualising Power and Capital + 2. Power and Marxism (pp. 23\u201369)<\/p>\n

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Session 3 |<\/strong> 10 April<\/p>\n

3. The Social Ontology of Economic Power + 4. The Human Corporeal Organisation (pp. 70\u2013103)<\/p>\n

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Session 4 |<\/strong> 24 April<\/p>\n

5. Metabolic Domination + Part II: 6. Transcendental Class Domination (pp. 104\u2013151)<\/p>\n

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Session 5 |<\/strong> 2 May<\/p>\n

7. Capital and Difference + 8. The Universal Power of Value (pp. 152\u2013199)<\/p>\n

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Session 6 |<\/strong> 8 May<\/p>\n

9. Value, Class, and Competition (pp. 200\u2013221)<\/p>\n

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Session 7 |<\/strong> 22 May<\/p>\n

Part III: 10. The Despotism of Subsumption (pp. 225\u2013252)<\/p>\n

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Session 8 |<\/strong> 29 May<\/p>\n

11. The Capitalist Reconfiguration of Nature + 12. Logistical Power (pp. 253\u2013295)<\/p>\n

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Session 9 |<\/strong> 5 June<\/p>\n

13. Surplus Populations and Crisis + Conclusion (pp. 296-326)<\/p>\n

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S\u00f8ren Mau\u2019s Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Verso, 2023) offers a compelling entry point for examining the exercise of power in our contemporary post-industrial world, moving beyond traditional frameworks of violence and ideology. Bringing together philosophical, economic, historical, and sociological perspectives, the book enriches both the reading experience and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}