Life Under the Death’s Head

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Addresses the slave-like social conditions of the capitalist age, and seeks to discover, in spite of it, a philosophical space to struggle against despair and to affirm life. Kuhn revisits a time when society did not yet completely support and mirror reproducing Capital, when large portions of the globe were not yet enclosed—the golden age of piracy. Piracy was an anarchic way of living that challenged the manipulations of the emerging capitalism, and preserved, against enormous odds, psychic and physical integrity.