Toscano, Alberto. 2016. The World is Already Without Us. Social Text, 34(2), pp. 109-124. ISSN 0164-2472 [Article]

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This article revisits the problematic of the cognitive mapping of capital by probing the affinity between two representational predicaments: the depopulated nature of images of human-altered landscapes in the “new topographics” photography and its epigones, and the current debate over the definition of the Anthropocene. It looks in Fredric Jameson’s treatment of the time of capital, and of the place therein of dead labor, for a clue to critically rethink both these phenomena, revealing their profound affinity in the aporia besetting our thinking of historical agency under capitalist conditions. The article concludes with a brief reflection on what it might mean to define communism in this light as the “resurrection of dead labor.”

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3468002
Keywords:	Anthropocene, capital, Fredric Jameson, photography, representation
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 12 September 2015 Accepted 2 June 2016 Published
Item ID:	22248
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2017 10:38
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2017 10:38
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/22248

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