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“Our old enemy the commodity”: Image, Narration, Spectacular Time

Author: Daniel Barrow orcid logo (Birkbeck, University of London)

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    “Our old enemy the commodity”: Image, Narration, Spectacular Time

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Abstract

Guy Debord and the Situationist International's analysis of late capitalist temporality remains an under-examined area of their work. Time as a 'form of appearance' - Marx's description of the commodity - replaces the reality of a time that cannot develop quantitatively. This article argues that this far-reaching analysis, which has been controversial in art theory and literary studies, sheds valuable light on theories of narrative time and subjectivity in late capitalist culture.

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Barrow, D., (2019) ““Our old enemy the commodity”: Image, Narration, Spectacular Time”, Brief Encounters 1(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.24134/be.v3i1.149

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16 Apr 2019
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