Brings together a close reading of Marx texts with contemporary debates on the production of subjectivity and offers a critical and postcolonial perspective on the subjectivity of labour, and contemporary capitalism.

Marx References / Introduction to the English Edition / Preface / Chapter One: Marx Beyond Marxism / Chapter Two: Production of Subjectivity / Chapter Three: A Twofold Beginning / Chapter Four: The Subject of History, the Subject in History / Chapter Five: Living Labour / Chapter Six: Hobbesian Spectres / Chapter Seven: Labour Power / Chapter Eight: Class (Struggle) / Chapter Nine: The Political Form at Last Discovered / Chapter Ten: Marx in Algiers / Conclusion / Appendix: Primitive Accumulation / Bibliography / Index

Sandro Mezzadra is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna. He is currently Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, and visiting research fellow at the Humboldt University, Berlin and in 2010 was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Duke University. He has published widely in Italian and other languages on contemporary migration and borders, globalization, contemporary capitalism and postcolonial theory. He is an active participant in the 'post-workerist' debates and one of the founders of the website Euronomade (www.euronomade.info). He has been visiting professor and research fellow in several places and coordinator of the Italian research team for three major EU projects. With Brett Neilson he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke University Press, 2013).