Soggetti del capitale. Benjamin e Foucault lettori di Marx

Foucault and Benjamin explored different themes and categories from Marx’s Capital, in accordance with their topics of interest and theoretical and political options. Foucault focused on the analysis of the relations of production as it concerned the disciplining of the working class and the constitution of the productive subject. Benjamin's archaeology of modernity investigated the commodity as phantasmagoria, the commodity fetishism and its promises of happiness. Both interpretations of Marx are treated in this article as complementary and convergent. In effect, starting from Marxian foundations, they allow us to trace a wellequipped genealogy of the submission of living beings to the modern relation of capital: a submission that continues under new forms in current capitalism. .