"socializedworker," and thus a renewed kind of struggle. The double-pronged theoretical approach ofautonomism is subsequently applied to this renewed form of conflict in what are perhaps Dyer-Witheford's most convincing chapters, entitled "Circuits" and "Planets". The circuit of capitalist production originally described by Marx is examined, yet in the analysis of the already observable emerging patterns of struggle along the various parts of the circuit attention is given to those parts which Marx himselflargelyoverlooked. In the next chapter, Dyer-Witheford suggestsan alternate view ofglobalization, one in which he quickly points out that capital's stealthy restructuring has created the conditions for a series of impressivelydocumented new oppositional alliances. These have been Formed using the very networks necessary to capital's imperatives of expansion and consolidation. Presumably in the spirit of creating new alliancesonce thought of as impossible, Dyer-Witheford then moves on to suggest, along the lines of what Jameson and Harvey have already attempted, possible areas of theoretical reconciliation between marxism and postmodernism. The process, already undertaken on the part of marxism, of a paradoxical "detotalizing totalizatioff', is capable, according to Dyer-Witheford, o f recontextualizing "...some of the important postmodern insights into contemporary conditions of communications." (p. 190) Yet he saves an
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