Jeta Mulaj

This article focusses on Silvia Federici’s analysis of crisis. In particular, it illuminates that her understanding of crisis contains two interrelated components: on the one hand, a historical approach, and, on the other, an understanding of crisis as an ongoing phenomenon inherent to capitalist society. The paper argues that, for Federici, it is exclusively in capitalist society that crisis becomes a normal state of affairs. Demonstrating this through her understanding of the constant re-enactment of primitive accumulation, the article explores the implications of this analysis for our understanding of capitalism and emancipation. Recovering Federici’s understanding of the ongoing capitalist crisis illuminates the need to advocate for the radical transformation of the material condition for our reproduction.

This article focusses on Silvia Federici’s analysis of crisis. In particular, it illuminates that her understanding of crisis contains two interrelated components: on the one hand, a historical approach, and, on the other, an understanding of crisis as an ongoing phenomenon inherent to capitalist society. The paper argues that, for Federici, it is exclusively in capitalist society that crisis becomes a normal state of affairs. Demonstrating this through her understanding of the constant re-enactment of primitive accumulation, the article explores the implications of this analysis for our understanding of capitalism and emancipation. Recovering Federici’s understanding of the ongoing capitalist crisis illuminates the need to advocate for the radical transformation of the material condition for our reproduction.

This article focuses on the role of servants in María Lugones’ “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception.” I show that Lugones uses and erases the work of servants in developing her understanding of world-traveling. This theoretical marginalization and instrumentalization challenges her claim to capture concrete, lived experience. This article argues that Lugones’ theory is “pseudo-concrete”: it capitulates into the very abstractions it seeks to overcome. Focusing on the role of servants reveals the class character of world-traveling and, in turn, its inability to grasp class relations. This article, thus, invites decolonial feminists to reconsider the advantages of class analysis for understanding not only capitalist domination but also perception, identification, and love.