Visualising the Empire of Capital

Hudson, Martyn (2019) Visualising the Empire of Capital. Visual Modernities Series . Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780367197834, 9780429243233

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Abstract

Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet capitalism persisted and perpetuated itself in new forms, such that its demise now looks less likely than it did 150 years ago. This book argues for a new way of understanding Marx and a new way of approaching both capitalist modernity and Marx’s Capital by rethinking the nature of vision. Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the invisible, Visualising the Empire of Capital offers a new way of thinking about what capital is and its future. A new reading of - and against - Marx, this volume argues for new forms of sensual utopia while initiating antagonism to the empire of capital itself. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, social anthropologists and sociologists with interests in critical theory, visual culture and aesthetics.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Design, capitalism, art history, design history, visuality
Subjects:	L100 Economics L200 Politics L300 Sociology
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Arts
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2019 10:52
Last Modified:	11 May 2020 08:26
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41110

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