{"product_id":"capital-and-language-from-the-new-economy-to-the-war-economy-paperback","title":"Capital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Marazzi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Hardt\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major theorist in the Italian postfordist movement offers a radical new understanding of the current international economic situation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Swiss-Italian economist Christian Marazzi is one of the core theorists of the Italian postfordist movement, along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, and Bifo (Franco Berardi). But although his work is often cited by scholars (particularly by those in the field of \"Cognitive Capitalism\"), his writing has never appeared in English. This translation of his most recent work, \u003ci\u003eCapital and Language\u003c\/i\u003e (published in Italian in 2002), finally makes Marazzi's work available to an English-speaking audience. \u003ci\u003eCapital and Language\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its starting point the fact that the extreme volatility of financial markets is generally attributed to the discrepancy between the \"real economy\" (that of material goods produced and sold) and the more speculative monetary-financial economy. But this distinction has long ceased to apply in the postfordist New Economy, in which both spheres are structurally affected by language and communication. In\u003ci\u003eCapital and Language\u003c\/i\u003e Marazzi argues that the changes in financial markets and the transformation of labor into immaterial labor (that is, its reliance on abstract knowledge, general intellect, and social cooperation) are just two sides of the same coin. Capital and Language focuses on the causes behind the international economic and financial depression of 2001, and on the primary instrument that the U.S. government has since been using to face them: war. Marazzi points to capitalism's fourth stage (after mercantilism, industrialism, and the postfordist culmination of the New Economy): the \"War Economy\" that is already upon us. Marazzi offers a radical new understanding of the current international economic stage and crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in its newest form.\u003ci\u003eCapital and Language\u003c\/i\u003e also provides a warning call to a Left still nostalgic for a Fordist construct--a time before factory turned into office (and office into home), and before labor became linguistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Marazzi was born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1951. He obtained a degree in Political Science at the University of Padova, a master's degree at the London School of Economics and a doctoral degree in Economics at the City University of London. He has taught at the University of Padova, the State University of New York, and at the University of Lausanne. He is currently Director of Socio-Economic Research at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.92 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43269708480647,"sku":"9781584350675","price":32.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/v-lAXP0k5Y9781584350675.webp?v=1759891805","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/capital-and-language-from-the-new-economy-to-the-war-economy-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}