Poetics of Value : The Primacy of Insurgency as Marxist Methodology /

Poetics of Value : The Primacy of Insurgency as Marxist Methodology /

Throughout value-form theory, the present is understood as a homogenising form of subsumption, determining all lives in its commodification of time. In Poetics of Value , Elliot C. Mason employs the 'fugitive' imaginary of black studies to locate other temporalities that antagonise the pre...

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Main Author: Mason, Elliot (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 365.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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American Studies.
Critical Social Sciences.
Literature and Cultural Studies.
Philosophy.
Social & Political Philosophy.
Social Sciences.
Sociology & Anthropology.

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Survival
  • 1 The Primacy of Insurgency
  • 2 Marxist Temporalities
  • 3 The Excess of Subjects
  • 4 Poetic Temporalities
  • 5 The Coming Poets
  • 6 The Coming Chapters
  • Part 1 Subjects of Value
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • 1 Critique of the Temporality of Value
  • 1 The Operation of Form-Determination
  • 2 Marxian Primacies
  • 3 The Primacy of Value
  • 4 Cultural Presents
  • 5 Antagonistic Primacies
  • 6 Moten's General Antagonism
  • 7 The Routes and Roots of Survival
  • 2 Alli Warren and the Production of Subjectivity
  • 1 Value's Poetry
  • 2 Determining Forms
  • 3 The Real Abstraction That You Are
  • 4 The Capitalist Abolition of Subjectivity
  • 5 The Particulars of Water and Power
  • 6 Let We Be Moral
  • 7 The Structure of Belief
  • 8 Life before Life
  • 9 San Francisco Renaissance
  • 10 The Emotive Poetics of Sociality
  • 3 Rob Halpern and the Crisis of America
  • 1 Before the Pain
  • 2 In the Face of Failure
  • 3 Poeticising Crisis
  • 4 The Masquerade of Profit
  • 5 Constant Interruption
  • 6 The Subject's Patiency
  • 7 The Limits of Freedom
  • Part 2 Socialities of Value
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • 4 Rowan Ricardo Phillips and the Form of Friendship
  • 1 Moving Bodies
  • 2 Rectifying Inclinations
  • 3 Upright Reasons
  • 4 Inclining Rectitude
  • 5 Friends before Form
  • 6 Plans for Survival
  • 7 A Moving Abstraction in Blu
  • 8 Citing Friends
  • 9 Planning Plans
  • 5 Fred Moten and the Primary Antagonism
  • 1 Assembling a Friendship
  • 2 Listening to B
  • 3 Opening to Others
  • 4 Calling on the Subject
  • 5 Misinterpellating
  • 6 Temporalities of Insurgency
  • 6 Speculations on the Poetics of Value
  • 1 Giving an Account of One's Theory
  • 2 In the Space Left
  • 3 In the Left Space
  • 4 The Excess Left of Poetry
  • Afterword: The Primacy of Insurgency
  • Appendix: Study Group for the Undercommons
  • Bibliography
  • Index.