The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I thank Meredith Michaels and Bill Haver for helping me develop my questions and research at an early stage and, more important, for giving me at least the image of what it might mean to live a life dedicated to the practice of interrogation and reflection. I thank explicitly all of those who read and reread sections of this project in its many guises—from dissertation and manuscript to book—and provided criticism, commentary, and suggestions: Kira Brunner, Christopher Fynsk, Bill Haver, Michael Hardt, Lily Jacobs, Fouad Kalouche, Warren Montag, Robert Read, Stephen David Ross, and Hasana Sharp. I thank Ophelia Selam for helping me with my forays into the world of translation; “The Materialist Workshop” at State University of New York–Binghamton and all of the people who have been associated with that infamous title at one time or another (Peter Carlo, Alejandro de Acosta, Mark Frezzo, Pete Morse, Diana Taylor, Chad Wilson, Soenke Zehle, to name but a few), for providing fertile soil for the development of many of these ideas; Stefano Harney, Bill Martin, Gabrielle Soldatenko, Paul Zarembka, Laurie Ousley, The Brecht Forum, and The Graduate Group for Marxist Studies at the University of Buffalo for inviting me to present parts of my research. A special thank you to the students in my course on Marxism at the University of Southern Maine for their excitement, energy, and curiosity. Carol Varney provided a great deal of support, encouragement, and advice during the final days of preparing the manuscript, and I am eternally grateful for all of her help. Finally, I am very grateful for the patience and support of Jane Bunker and Kelli Williams at State University of New York Press. ix ...