Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter 3 - The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body)

How were we transformed from humans into machines? In this third
installement of Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the
Witch' we discuss 'Chapter 3 - The Great
Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body' and learn
about the origins of the mechanisation of the workforce, the new
social conceptualisation of the body, magical corpses, the
philosophical battle between Descartes and Hobbes and the
introduction of shame of the body.





This episode is part of our series on Marxist feminists. As Mao
said, “Women hold up the other half of the sky.” Red Book Club
recognizes that including the voices of nonmen in our studies is
not a niche activity, but is in fact an essential step in gaining
the most comprehensive view of the material conditions of
the past and present as we possibly can; so we’ve planned
this series to amplify the ideas that nonmen have been bringing
to the conversation for centuries. From Federici’s
analysis of women as a means of primitive accumulation to
Luxemburg’s essay of the benefits of revolution vs the
impossibility of reform, each of these works confronts history
and the movement for social change through the lens of the
experiences of nonmen in society. Follow us on Twitter at
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Outro music: Lover Nature - Terra Soror


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