Rey Araújo, Pedro María2025-02-192025-02-192024-07-15Rey-Araújo, P.M. (2024), The “Temporal Rift” and the Temporalities of the Capitalist Social Metabolism. Antipode, 56: 2412-24321467-8330https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39748This 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.eng2024 The Author(s). Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Social metabolismValue-formMetabolic riftTimeMarxjournal article10.1111/anti.130820066-4812open access