- Title Pages
- Translation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction
- Translation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction
-
1 Critique and Life -
2 Critique and Work -
3 The Kríno Constellation -
4 Technologies of Critique -
5 The Word “Critique” -
6 Marx’s Critical Turn -
7 Crisis and Avant-Garde -
8 Critical Attitude -
9 Sovereign Critique I -
10 Hyperbole -
11 Sovereign Critique II -
12 The Epoch of Critique -
13 Critique Within the Frame, Critique of the Frame -
14 Manet: The Kant of Painting -
15 Heidegger’s Demand -
16 Critique and Figure -
17 Thought and Figure -
18 The Leveling of the Pit -
19 The Clash of Film and Theater -
20 Critique’s Loss of Aura -
21 Critique and Mass -
22 Nihil and Philosophy -
23 Jenny -
24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. -
25 The Exhausted Age -
26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx -
27 Referential Illusion -
28 Critique and Installation -
29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater -
30 Destruction -
31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception -
32 The Absolute Drought of Critique -
33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique -
34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique -
35 The Destruction of Theater -
36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique - Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
- Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
Critique’s Loss of Aura
Critique’s Loss of Aura
- Chapter:
- (p.54) 20 Critique’s Loss of Aura
- Source:
- Technologies of Critique
- Author(s):
Willy Thayer
, John Kraniauskas- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter mentions the first part of The Communist Manifesto, in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels acclaimed the revolutionary character of the industrial matrix that has resolved personal worth into exchange value for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions. It also discusses Charles Baudelaire who complimented the defetishization of moral values in which the predominance of the auratic made worse. The serial matrix returns the Kantian use value of critique to the expanded circulation of exchange value in process, with respect to which its use value would be no more than an aestheticizing accessory. The chapter explains how the aura is assembled as an accessory in a planetary “cooperation” that adds more and more functions that are directly governed by capital. It also analyzes the fictional de-aurization of critical activity and revolution carried out by Marx in the sixth, unpublished chapter of “Capital.”
Keywords: The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, industrial matrix, Charles Baudelaire, exploitation, serial matrix
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- Title Pages
- Translation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction
- Translation Has Always Already Begun: Translator’s Introduction
-
1 Critique and Life -
2 Critique and Work -
3 The Kríno Constellation -
4 Technologies of Critique -
5 The Word “Critique” -
6 Marx’s Critical Turn -
7 Crisis and Avant-Garde -
8 Critical Attitude -
9 Sovereign Critique I -
10 Hyperbole -
11 Sovereign Critique II -
12 The Epoch of Critique -
13 Critique Within the Frame, Critique of the Frame -
14 Manet: The Kant of Painting -
15 Heidegger’s Demand -
16 Critique and Figure -
17 Thought and Figure -
18 The Leveling of the Pit -
19 The Clash of Film and Theater -
20 Critique’s Loss of Aura -
21 Critique and Mass -
22 Nihil and Philosophy -
23 Jenny -
24 The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch. -
25 The Exhausted Age -
26 The Coexistence of Technologies: Marx -
27 Referential Illusion -
28 Critique and Installation -
29 Critique as the Unworking of Theater -
30 Destruction -
31 Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception -
32 The Absolute Drought of Critique -
33 Sorel: Sovereign Critique -
34 Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique -
35 The Destruction of Theater -
36 Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique - Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
- Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
