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Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\nGuy Debord has been called many things: pseudo-philosopher, nihilist, filmmaker, megalomaniac, strategist, third-rate Mephistopheles, theoretician, enrag\u00e9. His 1967 The Society of the Spectacle<\/em> has fallen into a similarly polyvalent reception. It has become a ubiquitous observation to say that we live in a society of \u2018spectacles\u2019. And yet, The Society of the Spectacle\u00a0<\/em>\u2014a critical theory of twentieth century capitalism as a form of domination qua<\/em> appearance\u2014 is pregnant with clues that the full meaning of Debord\u2019s diagnosis can only be derived not just from Marx\u2019s critique of political economy, but also from Hegel\u2019s speculative philosophy. However, my central argument is that Debord did not simply find within Hegel\u2019s philosophy the language necessary to speak to the problems of capitalist society (e.g. with the categories of appearance, essence, immediacy, mediation). Instead, in Debord\u2019s critical theory, Hegel\u2019s speculative logic emerges as a really existing rationality and social ontology that gives structural coherence to the organization of appearances in society. Tracing Debord\u2019s diagnosis out of this Hegelian lineage highlights the merit of theorizing capitalism in terms of a modality of appearing, specifically by emphasizing the difficulty in seeing the world not as it really is<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Eric-John Russell University of Paris 8 Domination qua Appearance: Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle 11 May 2021, 18h00 Lisbon Time (GMT+1) Online Seminar – Via Zoom (link here) Abstract Guy Debord has been called many things: pseudo-philosopher, nihilist, filmmaker, megalomaniac, strategist, third-rate Mephistopheles, theoretician, enrag\u00e9. His 1967 The Society of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}