Powers of the Mind : : Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis / / Michael Bray.

• VerfasserIn: Bray, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik ; 53
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Content --; Preface --; Chapter 1: Political Utopias of the Empowered Mind --; Chapter 2: The Division in Theory --; Chapter 3: The Labors of Progressivism --; Chapter 4: Mental Labor Declares War --; Chapter 5: The Final Progressive Settlement --; Chapter 6: Machines of Mental Labor --; Chapter 7: No One Has Yet Determined What a Mind Can Do --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839441473
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839441473?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Bray.

The Marxist conception of the division between mental and manual labor is a critical yet unrecognized aspect of contemporary political struggles.Departing from this novel argument, Michael Bray traces the conceptual and socio-political history of this labor division and emphasizes how the forms of control and organization articulated by that division in practices of production, democracy, racialization, and financialization are becoming increasingly important. Critiquing the left for its tendency to side implicitly with the powers of mental labor, Michael Bray shows that comprehending and challenging those powers is a pivotal task for anti-capitalist politics today.