RT Journal Article
T1 The “Temporal Rift” and the Temporalities of the Capitalist Social Metabolism
A1 Rey Araújo, Pedro María
K1 Social metabolism
K1 Value-form
K1 Metabolic rift
K1 Time
K1 Marx
AB This paper advances a reading of the social metabolism as a dynamic orchestration of heterogeneous rhythms, encompassing those intrinsic to human bodies and other natural processes, and those of relations mediating both. Contrary to pre-capitalist societies, as the collective mediation of the social metabolism adopts a capitalist form, it becomes autonomised from its conditions of existence, and a “temporal rift” emerges, with two distinct dimensions: the rhythmic conditions of regeneration of human bodies and natural processes, as well as the terms of occurrence of non-subsumed practices, become subordinated to capital's reproductive needs, thus compromising the reproduction of all Earthly life.
PB Wiley
SN 1467-8330
YR 2024
FD 2024-07-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39748
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39748
LA eng
NO Rey-Araújo, P.M. (2024), The “Temporal Rift” and the Temporalities of the Capitalist Social Metabolism. Antipode, 56: 2412-2432
NO I would like to thank Javier Moreno Zacarés and Antipode's three anonymous reviewers for their comments on previous versions. All usual disclaimers apply. This work was supported by the Xunta de Galicia, Spain, under the Postdoctoral Research Grant (Exp. ED481B-2021-066).  Open Research
DS Minerva
RD 27 abr 2026