This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle.

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Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Year

2017

eBook ISBN

9789048527052

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Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Media Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Contents
Introduction
1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord
2. ‘Reification’ between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience
3. ‘All Reification Is a Forgetting’: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification
4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play
5. ‘The Brilliance of Invisibility’: Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle
6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October
7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society?
8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism
9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet
10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt
Notes
Index

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