For the Proletariat

An inquiry into the structure of address in Marx's Capital, a book that is read by but not for the one reading it. Instead, a reader of Capital reads it for a collective that does not yet exist. What's more, it will always be read in a displacing way, insofar as, once the collective exists, it won't need to be read any longer. However, reading for the proletariat should not be confused with advocacy. Rather than advocacy, reading Capital is an act of evocacy, of reading the proletariat into existence.