By Paul Mason

From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel four presenter, Postcapitalism is a advisor to our period of seismic financial swap, and the way we will construct a extra equivalent society.

Over the earlier centuries or so, capitalism has passed through continuous swap - financial cycles that lurch from growth to bust - and has continuously emerged remodeled and reinforced. Surveying this turbulent heritage, Paul Mason wonders even if at the present time we're on the point of a transformation so giant, so profound, that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complicated approach through which whole societies functionality, has reached its limits and is turning into whatever utterly new.

At the guts of this transformation is info expertise: a revolution that, as Mason indicates, has the capability to reshape completely our everyday notions of labor, creation and cost; and to spoil an financial system in keeping with markets and personal possession - in truth, he contends, it's already doing so. nearly ignored, within the niches and hollows of the industry procedure, complete swathes of monetary existence are changing.. items and companies that not reply to the dictates of neoliberalism are showing, from parallel currencies and time banks, to cooperatives and self-managed on-line areas. titanic numbers of individuals are altering their behaviour, studying new different types of possession, lending and doing company which are detailed from, and opposite to, the present procedure of state-backed company capitalism.

In this groundbreaking e-book Mason exhibits how, from the ashes of the hot monetary drawback, we now have the opportunity to create a extra socially simply and sustainable international economic system. relocating past capitalism, he indicates, isn't any longer a utopian dream. this can be the 1st time in human heritage during which, built with an realizing of what's occurring round us, we will are expecting and form, instead of easily react to, seismic switch.

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The figural (or MARXISM AND THE HIDDEN GOD 57 dialectical) elaboration of such images consists of wresling them out of the archaic domain of empirical history, charging them 'to the bursting point with time', and thereby annihilating what Benjamin calls the intentio - the immediate historical context which is more properly the concern of the human sciences. This explosive moment is simultaneously the 'birth of authentic historical time, the time of truth'. Thus, in Benjamin's idea of the dialectical image, at least, the afiìrmation of transcendence - of another world which is present at every moment in this one - is a central, ineluctable motif, inseparable from the task of intervening in this world.

The painting depicts people known to Spencer during his life - including the artist himself and several 44 REIFICÂTION, OR THE ÂNXIETY OF LATE CAPITALISM members of his family - physically arising from their graves in the parish cemetery. w - a disjunction punctuated by its inadequacy, by its actualiry as the product of worldly logic - is given imaginative form. In Christian art, the same disjunction attains a sensuous form. Christianity and art have an almost symbiotic relationship, as thinkers including Hegel, Freud, Adorno and Georg Simmel have srrongly intuited.

Ia In The Modern Prince,,tntonio Gramsci founds his idea of the revolutionary parfy on a similarþ paradoxical conception of the agency of historical change. 15 In Machiavellit final invocation of a prince (nominally Lorenzo de Medici) who 'really exists', therefore, occurs a 67 WHÂT IS IMPUTED CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS? synthesis of the ideal and the material, comparable to that which occurs in the Christian íncarnation, or in the celebration of the Eucharist - or in the role of the parry as Gramsci develops it by anùogy'.

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