3. ‘All Reification Is a Forgetting’: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord 21
5. 2. ‘Reification’ between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience 37
6. 3. ‘All Reification Is a Forgetting’: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification 55
7. 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play 67
8. 5. ‘The Brilliance of Invisibility’: Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle 91
9. 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October 111
10. 7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? 133
11. 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism 149
12. 9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet 163
13. 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt 181
14. Notes 203
15. Index 221