Powers of the Mind: Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis
In: Edition Politik v.53
Intro -- Cover -- Content -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Political Utopias of the Empowered Mind -- The Struggle for the Knowledge Economy -- Utopias of the 99% -- The General Intellect -- The Cognitariat -- The function of mental labor -- Chapter 2 The Division in Theory -- The original class relation -- Tendencies of the division -- The political-ideological character of the division -- Mental labor as process and struggle -- Chapter 3 The Labors of Progressivism -- Hegemony born in the factory -- The professional, ascendant -- Class Powers and the Political Project of Progressivism -- Perceptions of the governed -- Chapter 4 Mental Labor Declares War -- The rationality of (cold) war -- To the victor, the spoils -- The legitimacy of war -- The coercive supplement to social reproduction -- Happiness as a wartime industry -- Chapter 5 The Final Progressive Settlement Racial Liberalism and Its Discontents -- Professionalizing antiracism -- Postracialism and the white working class -- The mental labors of whiteness -- Splinters of race and class -- Chapter 6 Machines of Mental Labor -- Algorithms, self-regulation, and mental labor -- Powers of the machinic mind -- Finance and the power of risk -- Stack and state -- Chapter 7 No One Has Yet Determined What a Mind Can Do -- Power and theory -- The renewal of workers' inquiry -- Populism as common sense politics -- Powers of the Mind -- Bibliography -- Index.