Cartografías de lo absoluto

by Alberto Toscano

¿Se puede ver el capital? Este libro examina las diferentes respuestas a esta pregunta ofrecidas por artistas, cineastas, escritores y teóricos en las últimas décadas. Una guía esencial para las preguntas más formidables y urgentes sobre cómo vemos, representamos y tratamos de comprender las fuerzas más poderosas que dan forma a nuestro momento histórico.

Genres: Philosophy, Theory, Geography, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Politics

290 pages, Paperback

First published February 27, 2015

About the author

Giornalista e analista politico, laureato in Scienze politiche a Milano, ha lavorato per importanti testate italiane e francesi, tra cui L’Unità, ItaliaOggi, Il Giornale, France 5, LCI e La Croix. Vive a Parigi dal 1986, dove è anche docente universitario a Bordeaux e alla Sorbona.

Ha ricoperto ruoli di rilievo in associazioni della stampa europea e ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti, tra cui onorificenze da Jacques Chirac e Giorgio Napolitano. È stato protagonista di iniziative culturali e teatrali, e collabora attivamente con media italiani e francesi.

Reviews

[Devin Day]

Zero Books can be a great publisher that puts out thought-provoking work in a very timely manner. It can also be frustrating when they publish a book with no index and 424 footnotes…

[Lette Hass]

Cartographies takes as its object representation as such, which it tracks through theories, models, visual works, films, novels, engineering projects and whole cities: it is an immense museum exhibition of artifacts material and mental which attempt, to convey the totalisation implacably at work everywhere in late-capitalism….

Todo apunta a la misma urgencia: hacer visible el sistema.

[Miroslaw Aleksander]

The offers a very interesting premise, and, at its best is insightful. However, its fixation on Jameson and a industrial view impose by classical Marxism leads to a series of problems and assumptions that should be reconsidered in a service-based global economy. As a result, although it does have several very interesting elements and discussions, the book ultimately fails to deliver.

[D]

Una buena tesis y un desarrollo que no termina de estar a la altura. El análisis teórico sobre las formas de cartografiar el capitalismo es original e interesante; los abordajes particulares sobre series, películas y obras de arte, en cambio, no aportan demasiado ni parece justificarse su relevancia.

[Nils Jepson]

varying degrees of quality. wolfen chapter eally good. don't think it really accomplishes or even further illuminates the task it set out for itself.

[Natalie]

This was great, took a while to get going, but the chapter on 'dead labour' and landscapes is Excellent.