"Illness can be understood in this multifaceted sense of alienation/ estrangement from the product of labor, from one’s own capacity to produce, which in turn presents this alienated world as a natural one. For the SPK, that mortification of the self from the world whereby one “becomes merely a fragment of [one’s] own body” is illness, something which becomes particularly apparent in those cases when this persistent, endemic mortification is subjectively experienced as pain and destruction, e.g., in the form of workplace injury, psychic crisis, or immiseration. Capital sets one part of us out against another. Illness describes the “damaged life, life that contradicts itself” that lives through such an experience."—Sasha Warren [Illness in or as Economy] >

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