Journal Title
Title of Journal: Fem Leg Stud
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Abbravation: Feminist Legal Studies
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Camila Bassi
Publish Date: 2010/03/27
Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-76
Abstract
This essay reviews Skeggs’ and Wilson’s papers in this issue of Feminist Legal Studies in terms of their development of and departure from ideas central to the Italian postMarxist postworkerist tradition specifically their understanding that capital is increasingly converging with the production and reproduction of social life itself I interrogate the assumed necessity to move beyond ‘the limitations of Marx’ by revealing via the Communist Manifesto Grundrisse and Capital how the ideas of ‘old’ Marx can offer important engagements and interlocutions with the ‘new’ empirical phenomena explored by Skeggs and Wilson I show how Marx’s notion of creative destruction is in tune with Wilson’s work on the erotic generativity of capitalism and how his observations on labourtime as the measure of value illuminate the exchange and circulation of Wife Swap Finally I suggest that we might be wary not to lose sight of the question of resistance by regarding immaterial labour as productive labour and thus relinquishing Marx’s conceptual tools of labour value and capitalThanks to Kate Bedford Anisa de Jong and Jon Binnie for organising the seminar from which this discussion and debate has developed and to the authors of the papers Beverley Skeggs and Ara Wilson Thanks also to Judy Nixon for her enthusiastic support and Louisa Cadman for her invaluable feedback on this review essay
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