Anselm Jappe

Gabriel Zacarias

Sandrine Aumercier

Clément Homs

A crise do novo coronavírus foi, em muitos aspectos, sem precedentes. Não apenas pela rapidez com que uma doença foi capaz de se alastrar em escala planetária — anunciando um futuro temerário para a época dos fluxos globais —, mas sobretudo por conta das reações que suscitou. Assistimos a um bloqueio geral da economia mundial e à imposição de medidas de confinamento populacional em quase todo o planeta. Temendo por sua sobrevivência, o capitalismo global colocou-se em quarentena. Mas os acontecimentos atuais só podem ser compreendidos se inserirmos a "crise do vírus" no panorama mais amplo do processo de crise fundamental do capitalismo, sistema que agora se confronta com seus limites históricos, tanto internos (a desvalorização do valor) quanto externos (a ameaça de colapso ambiental). A quarentena autoimposta do capitalismo foi, para este, um mal necessário para continuar existindo. Mas esse remédio amargo pode ter um perigoso efeito colateral, tendo aumentado exponencialmente a montanha de dívidas impagáveis que ameaça desabar a qualquer instante. A avalanche nos arrastará, em sua queda abrupta? Ou teremos aprendido algo com o breve pause do sujeito automático?

notas sobre a crise global

Capitalismo em quarentena

Donald Nicholson-Smith

T. J. Clark

Guy Debord

ANTONIO GUERREIRO

Conferências de Lisboa

A Sociedade Autofágica

This is the first serious intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of May 1968 in France. Anselm Jappe rejects recent attempts to set Debord up as a "postmodern" icon, arguing that he was a social theorist in the Hegelian-Marxist tradition—not a precursor of Jean Baudrillard but an heir of the young Georg Lukács of History and Class Consciousness (1923). Neither hagiographical nor sectarian, Guy Debord places its subject squarely in his historical context: the politicizing Letterist and Situationist "anti-artists" who, in the European aftermath of World War II, sought to criticize and transcend the Surrealist legacy. The book offers a lively, critical, and unusually reliable account of Debord's "last avant-garde" on its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary theory. Jappe also discusses Debord's films, which are largely inaccessible at present. This English language edition of the book has been revised by the author and features an updated critical bibliography of Debord and the Situationists.

New Afterword by the Author

Alastair Hemmens

On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics

Writing on the Wall

An Imbecile's Guide to Guy Debord's Concept of the Spectacle

The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such an eventuality would inevitably result in the liberation of humanity, as many orthodox Marxists claim? Through a collection of specially revised essays, first published in France between 2007 and 2010, Anselm Jappe draws on the radical new perspective of “the critique of value” as a critical tool with which to understand today’s world and to re-examine the question of human emancipation. The Writing on the Wall offers a powerful new analysis of the decomposition of capitalism and its critics.

The Writing on the Wall

réflexions sur Guy Debord

L'avant-garde inacceptable

Anselm Jappe

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