Vighi Unworkable

Delusions of an Imploding Civilization
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8727-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vighi, Fabio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Loss of Gravity in the Capitalist Galaxy

1. Labor, Value, and Other Capitalist Delusions
Dialectical Totalities
Brief Encounters
Setzung der Voraussetzungen
Hegel after Marx
The Fantasy of Surplus-Value
Hegel in and out of Political Economy

2. Implosion of the Work Society
Modernity's Self-deployment
Self-caused and Self-realized Reason
Real Work and Labor-time
Calling the Bluff
André Gorz's Critique of Work
Disaster Economics
The Difficulty of Letting Go

3. The Missing Cause
Chronic Constipation
A Worldless Discourse
The New Master
Colonization of the Productive Mind
Clouds of Impotence
Labor as Vanishing Presupposition
Marx's Teleology
The Transcendental Schema of Capitalist Time
Beyond Exploitation

4. Dialectical Short Circuits
The Catastrophe of Liberation
Blindness of the Automatic Subject
Hegel: Being as Self-mediated Groundlessness
The Speculative Breakthrough
The Labor Decoy
Big Data and the Fanaticism of Breathing

5. The Financial Demon
Shackled by Nostalgia
Capitalist Bulimia
The Anatomy of Finance Is the Key to the Anatomy of the Real Economy
Genie out of the Capitalist Bottle
Neoliberal Perversions
Populist Symptoms
Viral Simulations

Epilogue: Emergency Capitalism and the Exhaustion of a Form of Life

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Italian and Critical Theory at Cardiff University. He is the coauthor (with Heiko Feldner) of Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism.