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Iwasaki, Minoru

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Globalization and the Possibility of Oppositional Theory

Ukai, Satishi

Dislocate the Hinges, Release the Butterflies: Mariko Adachi
Global Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Reproduction trans. Gavin Walker

1. The reality of the failure of effectiveness of the G8 Summit in contemporary globalization.
2. The remnant schema of the binary opposition in globalization and its resistance movements.
   Limitations of this schema for the birth of resistance movements against the globalization of finance, information, and industrial capital.
3. Feminist gender analysis of globalization“The central theoretical point of gender analysis in contemporary globalization is not that the long-term process of world capitalism is a process of maturation towards the two major categories of capital and doubly free wage labor. It is rather the reverse _ it lies in the fact that there is increasingly a recognition that a social stratum is in the process of being formed, one for whom normalcy will be the impossibility of living out one's life through the form of wages.”
   Dissolution of wage labor as a category:
   The illusion of “doubly free wage labor” (the formation of an established working-class with lifetime employment)
4. Apertures of capitalism
   The original difficulty of the “dead grasping the living” in capital cycles Capital “must continuously encounter” the living only through history.
   The “impossibility” (muri) of the commodification of labor power as aperture.
   The impossibility of the capture of the living.
5. The depth of globalization in the reproductive sphere: What is the reproductive sphere?
6. Rosa Luxemburg on the continuous process of primitive accumulation in capitalism.
   A contemporary rereading:
   “Capitalism in its full maturity also depends in all respects on non-capitalist strata and social organizations existing side by side with it”.
   From expansion into the exterior towards the reconstruction of an “internal exterior”.
7. The redistributed portion stemming from possession of capital in the opposition of capital and doubly free wage labor.
   The other side of the dissolution of wage labor: the pension fund as capital speculation.
   Five forms of exposure in contemporary global capitalism:
   Doubly free wage labor / unfree wage labor; self-employed contracting; slavery and the new servant strata;
   marginality, transitionality.
8. The politics of care
   The “point of mediation or “hinge” in the articulation of the reproduction process.
   The return to care labor and international commodification.
   What is the refusal of return to the generality of immaterial labor (one form of abstract labor) in care labor?
   The impossibility of structural reproduction as central point of the feminist concept of labor, and its current actualization.
   New differentiations in the transformation of body parts into resources.

Here and now: dislocate the hinges, release the butterflies.

The Public or the Common? - Summit and the Universities without Conditions for Tomorrow

Shiraishi, Yoshiharu

Toward the Anti-Capitalist Theory of Capitalism

Tazaki, Hideaki

What Has Happened in Akihabara? (The Underground University of Tokyo)

Hirai, Gen