[AUT] Marazzi talk

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Here is the abstract (culled & translated from his Capitale & Linguaggio,
DeriveApprodi, 2002)

Thursday 2nd June
4.30-6.00pm, Room 137, Main Building
Goldsmiths College
(nearest Tube stops: New Cross / New Cross Gate)

FINANCE, ATTENTION AND AFFECT

With Christian Marazzi, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera
Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Traditionally, there has been a strong temptation to describe stock market
phenomena, and the extreme volatility they display, as the expression of
that autonomization of finance capital from real economic processes which
is so typical of the terminal phase of the business cycle in the 19th and
20th centuries. Marazzi will argue that the distinction between the real
economy, in which material and immaterial commodities are produced and
sold, and monetary-finance economy, in which the speculative dimension
dominates the choices of investors, must be entirely rethought in the new,
postfordist economy. The fundamental thesis is that in the new economy
language and communication structurally and contemporaneously traverse both
the sphere of the production and distribution of commodities and services
and the financial sphere. It is for this particular reason that the
modifications in the world of work and the modifications in financial
markets must be seen as two faces of the same coin.