SPECTERS AS A CAPITALIST MODE OF PRODUCTION AND TELE-TECHNOLOGIES
INJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS FROM A READING OF JACQUES DERRIDA
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Derrida, Spectrology, Capitalism, Tele-technologies, PharmacologyAbstract
The aim of this article is, firstly, to discuss what I consider to be the singularity of Derrida's perspective in the reading of Marx: the extraction of the idea of ghost/specter that would have been stifled by materialist theory and its ontology, leading to the idea that there is a mode of production of the ghost that supplements the objective and materialist production in capitalism. This hauntology results in an unprecedented transformation of the question of the human, through what I call here the ghost-man and on which I intend to reflect in more detail. Through the reading of Specters of Marx, we will arrive at a second moment of the article, which intends to relate, revisiting the interview Écographies de la télévision, through the quasi-concepts of artefactuality and virtuactualité, a new topolytics in the contemporary world, led not only, but above all, by new tele-technologies. Finally, I argue that the attitude of deconstruction in relation to these mutations should be understood as pharmacological, that is, that their negative or positive effects are not given in the “thing” itself, but in its uses and promises, in situation.
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