Post by: Andrew Ryder
Maria Mies, Silvia Federici, and Biopower
In the 1970s, activists and intellectuals developed new modes of inquiry for understanding the administration, control, and punishment of human bodies, and the constitutive effects that these techniques had on our means of apprehending ourselves and communicating with others. While Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics is a particularly celebrated example, ...
Biopolitik postmoderner Körper, biopower, ecofeminism, federici, feminism, foucault, marxism, primitive accumulation
Zapatistas and Marxism
The Militia System and the Zapatistas
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional – EZLN) became world-famous in 1994, with their “declaration of war” against the Mexican state. Their primary spokesman, Subcomandante Marcos, avoids traditional Marxist vocabulary or reference to figures of the Marxist tradition. While ...