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<p><b><a href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1690">Abolishing
Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done under Real
Subsumption?</a></b><br>
Edited by Anthony Iles & Mattin<br>
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<i>When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to
challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits
of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone
mad.</i><br>
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Wherever we are we find ourselves choking, trapped in a world
built against us we feel we don’t belong to. A world that is
going down the drain. Unable to stop this process as if history
has surpassed us, we seem to have missed our opportunity to take
hold of the future. We must ask ourselves: why are fatalistic
and totalising narratives so prevalent in our times? What would
it take to work against fear, to restore a sense of agency and
critical comprehension over capitalism’s runaway processes? By
tracing and uncovering the subterranean history of the Marxist
concept of subsumption within the French ultraleft, Operaismo,
the Frankfurt School and Mexican movements, as well as through
heated debates within communist circles in the last decade, <i>Abolishing
Capitalist Totality</i> offers a profound and critical inquiry
into what we understand by capitalist totality and its
dominating powers. It addresses radical forms of antagonism: the
self-abolition of the proletariat, of gender and race, and
explores how these relate to other forms of abolition, thereby
opening possibilities for new alliances and constellations.<br>
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As an integral aspect of interrogating and reorganising the form
of the book, poets and artists have been invited to challenge
what we perceive as the totality of this book by intervening
into its conventions. Our hope is that readers will be able to
grasp not only the concepts presented in the book but also its
form, in a multifaceted and engaged manner. What has been
perceived in recent years as an enclosed capitalist totality is,
in fact, composed of concrete processes that we can act upon: <i>how
we understand capitalism determines how we abolish capital.</i><br>
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Includes texts and interventions from Anthony Iles, Mattin,
Andrés Saenz De Sicilia, Bolívar Echeverría, Négation, Federico
Corriente, Roland Simon, Anne Boyer, Lisa Jeschke, Em
Hedditch,
Loss Choi, Danny Hayward, Sean Bonney, Sacha Kahir,
Théorie Communiste, Ray Brassier, Neil Gray, Rob Lucas, Nadia
Bou Ali, Jessika Khazrik, Andrei Chitu, Marina Vishmidt, Dimitra
Kotouza, and Endnotes.<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> Anthony Iles is a book editor and writer based in
London. He
is a founding member of Full Unemployment Cinema and
a Contributing Editor with <i>Mute</i> since 2005. He
is the
author, with Josephine Berry, of the book <i>No Room to Move:
Art and the Regenerate City</i> (2011), co-author, with Tom
Roberts, of <i>All Knees and Elbows</i> (2012). <br>
<br>
Mattin is an artist, musician, and theorist working conceptually
with noise and improvisation. Through his practice and pedagogy,
he explores performative forms of estrangement as a way of
engaging with structural alienation. He is the author of <i>Social
Dissonance</i> (2022) and, together with Anthony Iles,
co-edited <i>Noise & Capitalism</i> (2009). He runs the
podcast Social Discipline with Miguel Prado, and both are
members of Noise Research Union (NRU).<br>
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584 pages, 130 x 202mm, paperback, 13 illustrations<br>
UK: £25 / US: $35 <br>
ISBN 978-1-57027-441-1<br>
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Release to the book trade 24 July 2026<br>
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