Communism Realized

  • Maurizio Ferraris Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  • Jimmy Hernández Marcelo Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Keywords: Communism, Documedial Capital, Social World, Merchandise, Big Data

Abstract

The present paper attempts to present the nature of the documedial revolution, as well as the value of documedial capital for 21st century societies. Through an analysis of the fundamental concepts of communism (work, alienation, surplus value, etc.) we want to understand the fact that many of the ideals proposed by Marx find their realization in technologized and globalized societies. In the same way, we expose the deficiencies of both capitalism and communism in their categorization of capital. Finally, an attempt is made to understand the political phenomena of populism and fascism in the light of the theorization of the documedial revolution in order to prevent the new panoptic from paralysing authentic democracy.

Author Biographies

Maurizio Ferraris, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Maurizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy, where he is the President of the LabOnt – Center for Ontology. He has been Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. His main interests are in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and social ontology, attaching his name to the theory of Documentality and contemporary New Realism. He wrote more than fifty books that have been translated into several languages. The books that have appeared in English are: History of Hermeneutics (Humanities Press, 1996); A Taste for the Secret (with Jacques Derrida – Blackwell, 2001); Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham UP, 2012); Goodbye Kant! (SUNY UP, 2013); Where Are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham UP, 2014); Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY UP, 2014); Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014); Positive Realism (Zer0 Books, 2015).

Jimmy Hernández Marcelo, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Jimmy Hernández Marcelo is a member of the Center for Ontology (Labont) of the University of Turin, Italy,
where he is developing his post-doctoral research on New Realism under the supervision of Maurizio Ferraris, and a Lecturer at the University of Salamanca, Spain. PhD in Philosophy at the University of Salamanca and University of Turin (cotutelle). He was a visiting researcher at the University of Paris 1, the Catholic University of Louvain, the University of Coimbra, the Husserl Archives of the University of Freiburg, the Husserl Archives of the University of Cologne and at the University of Bonn. He has published several articles on the origins of Phenomenology and contemporary French philosophy. He has translated writings of Edmund Husserl, Jean Héring, Jocelyn Benoist, Sylvain Camilleri, and Jacques Derrida among others.

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Published
2018-12-31
How to Cite
[1]
Ferraris, M. and Hernández Marcelo, J. 2018. Communism Realized. Disputatio. 7, 8 (Dec. 2018), a018. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2554568.
Section
Articles and Essays