{"id":433,"date":"2013-01-29T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T00:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=433"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:30:21","slug":"beyond-the-myth-of-woman-the-becoming-transfeminist-of-post-marxism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Myth of Woman: The Becoming-Transfeminist of (Post-)Marxism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Antonella Corsani<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This essay is situated at the intersection of two trajectories of critical thought: feminism and post-workerism. In the displacements brought about by feminism, it seeks to grasp the need to rethink the categories of the critique of political economy. The feminism to which I am referring here is essentially that which reconfigured itself following its confrontation with the homosexual and post-colonial movements\u2014a feminism that I will call transfeminism, using a term borrowed from Beatriz Preciado\u2014that is, a feminism that is a thinking of and a political experimenting with multiplicity. I am joining the other trajectory, postworkerism, essentially at the level of the developments that have resulted from the contributions of Maurizio Lazzarato, Christian Marazzi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Antonio Negri and Carlo Vercellone over the past dozen years\u2014their effort to rethink labor, social cooperation, the wage and income today. Despite the different paths followed by these authors, their analyses converge on one essential point: what is emerging from the metamorphoses of capitalism is a new relationship between capital and life, which Christian Marazzi calls \u201cthe biopolitical turn of the economy.\u201d Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri speak of \u201cbiopolitical labor,\u201d meaning labor that produces not \u201cjust material goods but social life itself.\u201d Knowledge, know-how, language and affect are the fundamental stakes in production today, and they imply a new nature of labor within a categories that feminism has brought about, particularly the displacement of the categories of production and reproduction. Consequently, I want to ask the following questions: Can the category of labor as developed since Marx encompass all the forms that human activity can take? Can the category of living labor still resist once the divisions that subtend it\u2014body\/mind, culture\/ nature, man\/woman\u2014are called into question? Is the separation between living labor and dead labor pertinent, or has the infinite extension of living labor, the displacement of binary divisions such as living labor\/ dead labor or productive labor\/unproductive labor, instead reached the point where it has become quite unstable, and as a result, inoperative? I will explore this vast worksite by following a little path that is as surprising as the one that links its two figures: the lesbian and the intermittent worker or the \u201cnon-jobless unemployed\u201d [non ch\u00f4meur-non employ\u00e9].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tjasa-kancler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beyond-the-Myth-of-Woman-The-Becoming-Transfeminist-of-Post-Marxism.pdf\">download pdf&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay is situated at the intersection of two trajectories of critical thought: feminism and post-workerism. In the displacements brought about by feminism, it seeks to grasp the need to rethink the categories of the critique of political economy. The feminism to which I am referring here is essentially that which reconfigured itself following its confrontation with the homosexual and post-colonial movements\u2014a feminism that I will call transfeminism, using a term borrowed from Beatriz Preciado\u2014that is, a feminism that is a thinking of and a political experimenting with multiplicity. I am joining the other trajectory, postworkerism, essentially at the level of the developments that have resulted from the contributions of Maurizio Lazzarato, Christian Marazzi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Antonio Negri and Carlo Vercellone over the past dozen years\u2014their effort to rethink labor, social cooperation, the wage and income today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}