Christian Marazzi: The Violence of Financial Capitalism (2010)

“This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, makes a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to a new audience of readers. Marazzi, a leading figure in the European postfordist movement, first takes a broad look at the nature of the crisis and then provides the theoretical tools necessary to comprehend capitalism today, offering an innovative analysis of financialization in the context of postfordist cognitive capitalism. He argues that the processes of financialization are not simply irregularities between the traditional categories of wages, rent, and profit, but rather a new type of accumulation adapted to the processes of social and cognitive production today. The financial crisis, he contends, is a fundamental component of contemporary accumulation and not a classic lack of economic growth.

Marazzi shows that individual debt and the management of financial markets are actually techniques for governing the transformations of immaterial labor, general intellect, and social cooperation. The financial crisis has radically undermined the very concept of unilateral and multilateral economico-political hegemony, and Marazzi discusses efforts toward a new geo-monetary order that have emerged around the globe in response. Offering a radically new understanding of the current stage of international economics as well as crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in its newest form, The Violence of Financial Capitalism is a valuable addition to the contemporary arsenal of postfordist thought. This expanded edition includes a new appendix for comprehending the esoteric neolanguage of financial capitalism—a glossary of ‘Words in Crisis,’ from ‘AAA’ to ‘toxic asset.'”

Translated by Kristina Lebedeva
Publisher Semiotext(e), 2010
Intervention series, 2
ISBN 1584350830, 9781584350835
112 pages

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International Journal of Žižek Studies, Vol. 1-4 (2007-2010) [English/multiling.]

The International Journal of Žižek Studies (IJŽS) is an online, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to investigating, elaborating, and critiquing the work of Slavoj Žižek. IJŽS is an interdisciplinary journal that is open and welcoming to diverse approaches, methodologies, interpretations, and language of composition.

Vol 4, No 4 (2010): Special Issue – Žižek’s Theology: Guest Editor – Marcus Pound
Vol 4, No 0 (2010): Žižek on Wagner
Vol 4, No 3 (2010): Latin American/Iberian Issue Part 1 [Guest Editors – Roque Farran & Imanol Galfarsoro] & General Articles
Vol 4, No 2 (2010): Žižek’s Communism – Guest Editors: Matthew Sharpe & Geoffrey Boucher
Vol 4, No 1 (2010): Žižek and Ideology – Guest Editors: Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi
Vol 3, No 4 (2009): Žižek in Tehran – Guest Editor Nathan Coombs
Vol 3, No 3 (2009)
Vol 3, No 2 (2009): Korean Special Issue: Guest Editor – Myoung Ah Shin
Vol 3, No 1 (2009)
Vol 2, No 4 (2008): Žižek and Lacan
Vol 2, No 3 (2008): Žižek on Video
Vol 2, No 2 (2008): Žižek and Hegel + additional papers
Vol 2, No 0 (2008): Žižek po Polsku
Vol 2, No 1 (2008): Graduate Student Special Issue
Vol 1, No 4 (2007): Zizek and Heidegger
Vol 1, No 3 (2007): Žižek and Cinema
Vol 1, No 2 (2007): Žižek & Badiou
Vol 1, No 1 (2007): Why Žižek?
Vol 1, No 0 (2007): Backstory: Previously Published Material

Edited by Paul A. Taylor and David J. Gunkel
ISSN: 1751-8229

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Nick Srnicek: Assemblage Theory, Complexity and Contentious Politics. The Political Ontology of Gilles Deleuze (2007)

The purpose of this thesis is to reconsider the nature of ontology in contemporary political science, with the belief that such a move can be of great benefit to understanding changes in our era of globalization and terrorism. This is accomplished by examining the ontologies of both social constructivism and critical realism in order to show their reliance upon illegitimate presuppositions, and then developing a novel ontological position on the basis of these criticisms.

Gilles Deleuze’s concept of assemblages – and his ontology, more generally – are examined as particularly powerful ways to conceptualize the complexity, dynamism and differences that are inherent to the political world. This is brought out concretely in a study of recent academic work on contentious politics in order to show the centrality of conflict and difference to politics, and to show the power of a reconceptualization of ontology.

Keywords: Deleuze; Bhaskar; individuation; ontology; complexity; contentious politics; critical realism; assemblages; social constructivism

Unpublished MA Thesis
The University of Western Ontario, 2007.

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