Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay examines the genre of georgic as it generates formal insights into the place of unpaid work and unwaged life alongside waged work within capital’s cycles of accumulation and crisis. The georgic offers key elaborations on the life-worlds and practical activities that subtend the formal economy. Turning to Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead and Cecily Nicholson’s From the Poplars, this essay argues that these poetic works can be read as ‘georgics from below’ in their expanded inquiries into the conditions of labouring life within capitalist productive relations, and their forceful critiques of the risk exposures and rational violence of waged labour. These works consider potential locales of resistance, collective counter-imaginaries, places of rewilding and feral existences.
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