The Phantasmagoria of Capital: A Short History of the Commodity, the Spectacle and its Discontents.
David Black
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ISBN for Libraries: 9781919342573
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CONTENTS
Part One. Origins
Tragedy, Philosophy and Money = A Warning from Greek Antiquity; Cults, Myths and Money – Dionysus, Orpheus and Us
Part Two‘New Passions’ Post-Feudalism
Anarchism and Aristotle – Old but Good and Vice-Versa; ‘Another Language’ – Walt Whitman, Karl Marx and the British, 1850-56; Marx and the Narodniks – The Lost Russian Road to ‘de-growth’ communism.
Part Three Commodity Culture
Lukacs on Journalism as Prostitution; Culture Wars in the Spiritual Animal Kingdom – On the Barbarism of Pure Insight; Culture (Before the World) Wars = Simmel, Lukacs and Bloch and the ‘Tragedy of Spirit’; History, Capital and Phantasmagoria – Divine Heresies; Melancholy, Allegory and Tyranny – Reading the Ruins with Walter Benjamin; Surrealism’s 100 Years – Hegel, Freud and Breton; Strolls in Dialectical Fairyland – Walter Benjamin’s Surrealism
Part Four Spectacle
‘Go home Mr. Chaplin’. – The Letterist Assault on Cinema; Post-Surrealism; ‘Extremist Innovations’ for Beginners = How the Situationists took on the culture industry; Spectacular Integration = What Guy Debord Saw Coming; The Spectacle of Ressentiment – T.J. Clark on Why art still can’t kill the Situationist International
Part Five Anti-Spectacle
Cities of the Dreadful Future – Psychogeography, Urbanism and the Dérive in London and Paris; Gillian Rose – Beyond the Holy Middle: Spectacle Paradiso; ‘Materialist Realism’; Alternatives to Vanguardism = CLR James, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Raya Dunayevskaya
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