Bodies and artefacts: historical materialism as corporeal semiotics
In: Historical materialism book series volume 244
Introduction: Exposing the corporeal roots of historical materialism and moving toward a corporeal semiotics -- An Aufhebung of philosophy and the genesis of a materialist conception of history : objectification and Marx's corporeal turn -- From the first corporeal fact of human being to the moments of history : corporeality, modes of objectification, and ways of worldmaking -- The dimensions and methodological Leitfaden of a historical-materialist Wissenschaft -- The body is not a tabula rasa : clearing a path toward a 'hidden bodily problematic' -- Toward a corporeal cartography : methodological preliminaries -- Toward a historical-materialist cartography of human corporeal organisation (in outline) : on the corporeal constitution of patterns of human experience, behaviour, and realities -- On the corporeal constitutions of cognition and subjecthood -- The 'linguistic turn' and its discontents : a critique of disembodied semiotics -- The 'cultural turn' and its discontents : a critique of disembodied cultural studies -- Artefacts as corporeal signs; toward a corporeal semiotics -- Methodological reflections on forms of social objectivity and subjectivity : class, class consciousness, and the critique of capitalist cultural form -- A 'great transformation' : a genealogy of capital's culture of quantity -- The commodity form, quantification, and the standpoint of capital : an archaeology of capital's culture of quantity -- The capitalist labour-process and the body in pain : the corporeal depths of Marx's concept of immiseration.