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Anselm Jappe
Keynote
Spectacle Of Fascism Conference
April 8, 2017

150 years ago, Marx published his Capital. Can we assess the topical importance of his theory today in another way than traditional leftists do and show the central role of his critical categories of commodity, value, money, abstract labour and commodity fetishism for our understanding of the contemporary world? What does Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle teach us about the evolution of capitalism? And how can new forms of critical Marxism, as the critique of value (Postone, Kurz), help us to understand the recent wave of “transversal” populism as a form of “fake anticapitalism”?

Anselm Jappe is the author of Guy Debord (1993, University of California Press 1999, PM Press 2017), Les Aventures de la marchandise. Pour une nouvelle critique de la valeur (Denoel 2003), L’Avant-garde inacceptable. Réflexions sur Guy Debord (Lignes, 2004), Crédit à mort (Lignes 2011, translated as The Writing on the Wall, Zero Books 2017), Contro il denaro (Mimesis, 2013). He contributed to the German reviews Krisis and Exit !, founded by Robert Kurz, which developed the “critique of value”. He currently teaches at the Fine Art Schools of Sassari (Italy) and has been visiting professor in various European and Latin American universities. He also lectured at the Collège international de philosophie (Paris).