It‘s his 200th birthday this year, but Karl Marx is more dead than ever before: He either has to serve for trivial anticipations of demise or his theories get exploited, so the academic market gets new supplies. It‘s time we use Marx as a fuse cord. This is how the MRX Machine emerges. The MRX Machine taps feminism, postcolonialism, etc. and keeps searching for cracks, through which the perversion and the stench of proletariat becomes visible again behind multiple layers of the „entrepreneurial self “. The MRX Machine scans the scenes of public self-marketing and the private factory of body-optimization for traces of internalized class struggles. MRX Machine is a secret salutation to all refuseniks, it is analysis, agitation and agression at once - and consider yourself to be on sick leave while reading this book.
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Luise Meier was born 1985 in East Berlin. She studied Philosophy, Social and Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies in Berlin, Frankfurt (Oder) and Aarhus and writes both fiction and non-fiction.
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"Marx's most erudite pupil for the time being this year is a convincing service worker. She entices with salutary prospects of contagion: with unproductivity." - Ronald Pohl, The Standard
"The fact that this book, with breathtaking virtuosity, virtually hurls at us so much material for discussion, that is the great thing about this "MRX Machine"." - Patrick Eiden-Offe, Süddeutsche Zeitung
