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The Spell of Capital : Reification and Spectacle /
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged an...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Reification and Spectacle: The Timeliness of Western Marxism / Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle; 1. Yiwu: The Cryptogram of the Spectacle; 2. The Sequence (1867-1923-1967) and the Parcours; Bibliography; 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord / Johan F. Hartle; 1. Mistaking the Social: Fetishism and Social Facts; 2. Commodity Fetishism, Reification, Spectacle; 3. Aesthetico-Political Interventions, or, How to Overcome Reification?; Bibliography.
- 2. 'Reification' between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience / Samir Gandesha1. Two Models of Reification; 2. Reification and Normativity; 3. Musical Experience beyond Autonomy and Authenticity; Bibliography; 3. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting': Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification / Thijs Lijster; 1. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting'; 2. Reification and Allegory; 3. The Collector; 4. Adorno's Dialectic of Reification; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play / Tyrus Miller; Bibliography.
- 5. 'The Brilliance of Invisibility': Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle / Sudeep Dasgupta1. Coordinating the Society of the Spectacle: Debord and Lukács; 2. Interception/Identification/Dissolution; 3. Suspension/Attention/Dissolution; 4. From the Logic of Dissolution to the Dynamic of Identification; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October / Noortje de Leij; 1. Buchloh's Spectacle; 2. Use Value versus Exchange Value; 3. Counter-spectacular Memory; Bibliography.
- 7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? / Kati Röttger1. Spectacle and Post-democracy; 2. The Dilemma of the Spectacle; 3. Spectacle as the Condition of Politics; 4. In Praise of Theatre; Bibliography; 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism / Willow Verkerk; 1. Lukács and Reification; 2. Sexual Objectification and Reification: Feminist Problems; 3. Performative Agency and Posthuman Feminism; Bibliography.
- 9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet / Joost de Bloois1. Dialectical Vitalism: The Society of the Spectacle; 2. Time's Crooked Arrow; 3. A Sick Planet: Life as Revolutionary Wildcard; Bibliography; 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt / Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle; Bibliography; Notes; Index; List of figures; Figure 1. Trading stalls of Yiwu in the People's Republic of China. Photo by Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle.