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Envisioning strategies of the formation of political agency born out of the dynamics of domination, conflict, and emancipation occupies the central focus of Massimo Modonesi'sSubalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy: Constructing the Political Subject. It attempts a recuperation of Marxian analytical tools built around the conceptual categorical triad of subalternity, antagonism, and autonomy. These theoretical categories are analyzed through a rigorous and synthesizing explication of the respective Marxian practitioners of these theoretical plexuses, such as Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, and Cornelius Castoriadis. The book rescues the conceptual metaphors of these thinkers in order to consolidate a wealth of Marxist concepts germane to the constitution of political subjectivity. A theoretical homology among these diachronic conceptual axioms is explored in order to yield a common ground in the Marxian problematic of subjectivation. Recent movements in Latin America are deployed as empirical reference frames to solidify Marxian ideas of subordination, resistance, and insubordination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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