@article{Lettow_2015, place={Berlin, DE}, title={Biokapitalismus und Inwertsetzung der Körper: Perspektiven der Kritik}, volume={45}, url={https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/227}, DOI={10.32387/prokla.v45i178.227}, abstractNote={<p>The article discusses the ways in which bio-capitalism has been analyzed and criticized during the last decade. In contrast to analyses that reduce bio-capitalism to the emergence of bio-tech-industries and the respective transformations of capitalist accumulation, the author argues for an understanding of bio-capitalism as specific mode of bio-politics that does not only involve new strategies of accumulation but also transformations of subjectivities and modes of livings. In particular, the article explores three critical perspectives – bioethics, the critique of marketization, and attempts to rethink political economy – and asks how they contribute to a critical understanding of bio-capitalist modes of the production, circulation and consumption of body materials.</p>}, number={178}, journal={PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft}, author={Lettow, Susanne}, year={2015}, month={Jan.}, pages={33 – 49} }