The Capitalist Gaze

Capitalism on Edge (Columbia University Press), 2020

• This Chapter of Capitalism on Edge develops the first comprehensive methodology for critical social theory; • it articulates a three-dimensional model of domination and attendant notions of emancipatory practice and radical politics; • offers a theory of the internal transformation of capitalism, later applied in an account of the historical forms of capitalism from the 19th-century liberal form to our contemporary post-neoliberal, 'precarity capitalism'.

This article aims to examine the concept of the spectacle by depending on the works of Guy Debord and some secondary sources, and then to evaluate the examination according to post-truth politics that have arisen after Debord. For that purpose, the article is separated into four parts. The concept of the spectacle is analyzed in detail in the first part. After that, in the second part, the societies functioning through the spectacle are elucidated and the mechanism of the spectacle is revealed by some examples. Then, the relation between the spectacle and the formation of historical memory is shown, along with the roles of digital myths in industrial culture, in the third part. As for the fourth part, the spectacle is discussed by regarding the concept of post-truth and post-truth politics, and the article is completed after coming to a point on the issue.

This short article explores the 'double role' of aesthetic arguments with regard to tall building debates in London: one the one hand, they create a space for a conservationist and historicist reading of the cityscape that wishes to hold onto the current visual order; on the other, they open up a space for a visually transformative reading of the city structured around capitalist imperatives, always on the lookout for new investment opportunities.

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2020

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Cosmos and Taxis, 2019

Capitalism is a term widely used by critics and advocates alike, but with little coherence to its meaning. Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek, along with Chicago School economist Milton Friedman sought to turn it into a term of approval rather than criticism. Their different efforts to do so did not harmonize theoretically. When their respective insights and confusions are addressed a coherent theory of capitalism emerges, one that is critical, as was initially the case.