Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are ...examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers.
Tiempos modernos, de Charles Chaplin, constituye uno de los documentos culturales más reveladores del sentido profundo de la organización capitalista del trabajo. ¿Cómo interpela nuestra ...contemporaneidad esa película de vieja factura? ¿Qué puede extraerse, para una antropología del capitalismo, de ese viejo documento ficcional? A través de un análisis de la cinematografía de Chaplin y, sobre todo, de las primeras escenas de Tiempos modernos, se plantea que la ficción chapliniana permite desplegar una interrogación crítica sobre algunos rasgos fundamentales de la racionalidad capitalista y de su violencia intrínseca. Pensando a Chaplin como una suerte de etnógrafo del capitalismo, se examina su crítica a la relación entre capitalismo y marginalidad, a la experiencia moderna del tiempo y al sentido de la tecnología del capital. Deteniéndonos en estos núcleos de problematización, analizamos la crítica chapliniana a un modo de producción que, centrado en la acumulación privada, engendra un malestar colectivo de múltiples dimensiones. Palabras clave: Charles Chaplin, cine, crítica del capitalismo, trabajo, tecnología. Charles Chaplin's Modern Times is one of the most revealing cultural documents about the deep sense of capitalist organization of work. How does that old-time film interpellates our contemporaneity? Could something be extracted about that old fictional document for an anthropology of capitalism? Through an analysis of Chaplin's cinematography, and especially of Modern Times first scenes, this article sets that chaplinian fiction allows critical questioning about some essential characteristics of capitalist rationality and its intrinsecal violence. Thinking Chaplin as a sort of ethnographer of capitalism, we examine his critique of the relationship between capitalism and marginality, of the modern experience of time, and of the meaning of technology of capital. Stopping at these medullar points of problematization, we analize the chaplinian critic of the mode of production that, centered on private accumulation, produces a collective discomfort of multiple dimensions. Key words: Charles Chaplin, cinema, critique of capitalism, work, technology. TRADUCCIÓN: Grecia Cuevas Lara, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia CÓMO CITAR: Radetich, N. (2019). La mirada etnográfica de Charles Chaplin: la crítica del capitalismo en Tiempos modernos. Culturales, 7, e452. doi:
This essay review centers on the reason why dark tourism not only has been widely studied, but also to what extent gives rise to a new stage of capitalism, which was reinforced after 11/9, where ...death plays a vital role. In the days of Thana Capitalism, far from what current literature suggests, some disrupting cultural values as competence, the needs of being exceptional, and individualism remain. Mass media and entertainment cultural industry have commoditized death not only as a mechanism towards escapement and entertainment, but as a reason of status and discrimination.
Transcending Capitalismexplains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead ...preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in some course of development leading beyond capitalism.
Howard Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather, expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and cannot be disregarded as one of the elements contributing to the revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s.
Rooted in a politics of social liberalism, this vision held influence for roughly a half century, from its interwar origins until the right turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a historically based understanding of American postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current possibilities for reinvigorating critical social thought that explores transitional developments beyond capitalism.
Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited
brings together leading experts on the political economies
of southern Europe-specifically Greece, Italy, Spain, and
Portugal-to closely analyze and explain the ...primary socioeconomic
and institutional features that define "Mediterranean capitalism"
within the wider European context. These economies share a
number of features, most notably their difficulties to provide
viable answers to the challenge of globalization.
By examining and comparing such components as welfare, education
and innovation policies, cultural dimensions, and labor market
regulation, Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited attends to
both commonalities and divergences between the four countries,
identifying the main reasons behind the poor performance of their
economies and slow recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2008.
This volume also sheds light on the process of diversification
among the four countries and addresses whether it did and still
does make sense to speak of a uniquely Mediterranean model of
capitalism.
Contributors: Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University; Lucio
Baccaro, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Rui
Branco, NOVA University of Lisbon; Fabio Bulfone, Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies; Giliberto Capano, University
of Bologna; Sabrina Colombo, University of Milan; Lisa Dorigatti,
University of Milan; Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo; Matteo
Jessoula, University of Milan; Andrea Lippi, University of
Florence; Manos Matsaganis, Polytechnic University of Milan; Oscar
Molina, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Manuela Moschella,
Scuola Normale Superiore; Sofia A. Pérez, Boston University; Gemma
Scalise, University of Bergamo; Arianna Tassinari, Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies.
This paper opens up a novel geographical research agenda on building transitions beyond the capitalist present. It brings into conversation two previously disconnected areas of academic debate: ...socio-technical transition studies and more radical work on post-capitalism. The paper offers empirical evidence of real-life socio-spatial practices that build postcapitalist socio-technical transitions through a case study of the daily experiences, motives and values of residents in a community-led cohousing project in the UK. I begin by exploring definitions around postcapitalism and transition thinking, and then introduce the notion of the urban commons to point towards the geographies of post-capitalist transitions and illustrate the kinds of social and spatial relations that underpin them. The paper then provides empirical substance for a geographical agenda around post-capitalist transitions through the case study, highlighting themes of experimentation, transformation and direct democracy. The paper concludes with some strategic future reflections and makes a claim for a geographical research agenda that elaborates the possible radical geographies and place imaginaries of post-capitalist transitions in our teaching, research and policy work. Unless geographers forge direct and necessary links between transitioning and moving beyond capitalism, our ability to take decisive and meaningful action on the challenges that lie ahead will be limited.
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