0 March 2025
B.P.C. books announce the publication of a new book
The Phantasmagoria of Capital
A Short History of the Commodity, the Spectacle and its DiscontentsDavid Black
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= (And the Renegade Trump Appeasers)
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 MiddleSpectacle Paradiso
‘Materialist Realism’
Alternatives to Vanguardism = CLR James, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Raya Dunayevskaya
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