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Record Nr.

UNISA996379044303316

Titolo

The Spell of Capital / edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

90-485-2705-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

320.5315

Soggetti

Reification

Communism and culture

Communist aesthetics

Philosophy, Marxist

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Gandesha, Samir / Hartle, Johan F. -- 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord / Hartle, Johan F. -- 2. 'Reification' between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience / Gandesha, Samir -- 3. 'All Reification Is a Forgetting': Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification / Lijster, Thijs -- 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play / Miller, Tyrus -- 5. 'The Brilliance of Invisibility': Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle / Dasgupta, Sudeep -- 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October / de Leij, Noortje -- 7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? / Röttger, Kati -- 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism / Verkerk, Willow -- 9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet / de Bloois, Joost -- 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt / Gandesha, Samir / Hartle, Johan F. -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.