The Spell of Capital / edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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