
Caliban and the Witch
Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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Narrated by:
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J. Lee Craig
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By:
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Silvia Federici
Literary nonfiction.
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against the rebel body and the conflict between body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization. Re-recorded in 2025.
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Amazing, Well Researched Novel, Poorly Narrated
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the book itself is dense, and full of academic language. if you can parse it, it's an incredible thesis on the connection between the subjugation of women and the rise of capitalism. really stellar work
incredible thesis
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I did not enjoy the narrator & if it wasn't for my habit of listening to book on higher speed I couldn't listen to this audiobook without falling asleep.
witch & feminist
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Important research to understand what we’re living in and how we got here
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Don’t Let the Narration Criticism Hold You Back
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Brilliant book, but reader can't pronounce
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Incredible review of the persecution of women
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I download this book to feel more human and remind myself that I have a soul, and to pretend that understanding a complicated and nuanced argument somehow negates the fact that I’m struggling.
And then the narrator’s battle with the text begins and I flash back on one of the worst moments of my life: an international academic conference where I presented a paper that I had not yet actually written, and never would write. Some bullshit on Cyborgs and the Pharmakon. She’s talking about Foucault’s biopower and Rosi Braidotti and I’m right back there in that room facing a harsh critique coming from the Gender and Women’s Studies grad student that I critiqued with equal harshness the day before—both of us are women in our early 20s. Clearly neither of us actually know anything about critical theory, yet we are clawing at each other to learn. An ugly spectacle all around.
Back to J Lee Craig- her mispronunciations psych me out because at this point I’m deep enough into my relived fight/flight response to question wether it’s her or me that’s been phrasing things wrong all along.
Thankfully, it’s not me getting caught this time.
Let her re-record this with better pronunciation help from the editors. This shit is too dense for anyone who hasn’t participated in highly specific academic hazing to tackle without support, and it is rather embarrassing and stressful.
for christ’s sake pls give J Lee Craig a chance to re-record this
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From start to finish.
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"Naah, I'm sure it's fine."
Seriously though. this narrator is just constantly mispronouncing even common, English words. I don't understand how this made it through editing. Excellent book. perplexingly shoddy reading.
I'm leaving the overall rating high so people don't think the book itself is being reviewed poorly, but know that the reading is probably gonna frustrate you a bit.
Where did they find this narrator?
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