Re: [AUT] Marazzi talk

["stevphen shukaitis" <stevphen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

did you go to this? if so, do you have any notes on what he said during
the presentation beyond what's said in this abstract?

cheers
stevphen


> 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.