Spectacle

A PREFATORY STATEMENT FROM RETORT: Having talked over your questions at length, we find that they can be answered best by grouping together several of them and trying to spell out the key issues and assumptions we see underlying them. That way, we hope, the common ground between Retort and Platypus will be clear – as well as the nature of our disagreements. Soren Whited: How would you describe the historical and conceptual relationship between the commodity form – first articulated by Marx and further elaborated by Lukács as “the central, structural problem of capitalist society in all its aspects” – and the concept of spectacle – first formulated by Guy Debord as “capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image”? [Read More]