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Cartographies of the Absolute</div>
<div style="font-size: 22px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(41,
133, 180); margin-top: 50px;">An aesthetics of the economy for
the twenty-first century.</div>
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Toscano</a></li>
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Kinkle</a></li>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Can capital be
seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate
answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers,
writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on
the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring
crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new
visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness,
invisibility and complexity of the abstractions that rule our
lives.<br>
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gray; font-size: 16px;">REVIEWS & ENDORSEMENTS</span><br>
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<li style="padding: 5px 0px;">How much of capitalism can we
see from the moon? This remarkable, unclassifiable book sets
out to map the ways. Cartographies takes as its object
representation as such, which it tracks through theories,
models, visual works, films, novels, engineering projects
and whole cities: it is an immense museum exhibition of
artefacts material and mental which attempt, consciously or
not, to convey the totalisation implacably at work
everywhere in late capitalism. But this is also a profoundly
theoretical work: indeed, it summons us to think new
philosophical thoughts about this system and how to make it
visible. We ought to emerge from it with a new conception of
the tasks of criticism and the production of art itself.<span
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<i>~ Fredric Jameson, author of Representing Capital and The
Antinomies of Realism</i></li>
<li style="padding: 5px 0px;">Cartographies of the Absolute is
an essential guide to the most formidable and urgent
questions about how we see, represent and try to understand
the greatest forces shaping our historical moment.<br>
<i>~ Trevor Paglen, artist and author of Blank Spots on the
Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World</i></li>
<li style="padding: 5px 0px;">Cartographies of the Absolute
takes us beyond current fashions for perspectivalism and
flat ontologies, and beyond the tired (and often quietistic)
formulae that argue how capitalism’s modern complexities
must remain forever beyond human grasp. Bringing vital
insights to a range of aesthetic practices – and recognising
the torsions, refractions and ruses required to puncture the
reified social forms before us - Toscano and Kinkle
elaborate a praxis of dissident totalisation to counter
capital’s limited horizons.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<i>~ Gail Day, author of Dialectical Passions: Negation in
Postwar Art Theory</i></li>
<li style="padding: 5px 0px;">Culture, in the last decade, has
had a simple duty: to be the dreamlife of the bust. It has
answered this call in ways uneven, tawdry, messed up,
beautiful — but it has finally not failed to make a veiled
reading of this obscene catastrophe. But how then to wake
from the purling images, how to leap from dream to map of
the present? Here we need ideal readers of culture's
readings, and none have come closer than Alberto Toscano and
Jeff Kinkle. Their bravura cleavings of spectacular
representation and the transformations of global capital
become themselves a kind of new knowledge, a kind of
psychelocation from which we might take an orientation and a
sense of possibility.<br>
<i>~ Joshua Clover, author of the Totality for Kids and 1989</i></li>
<li style="padding: 5px 0px;">How this complex, chaotic,
vicious system of exploitation called capitalism has been
rendered by TV writers, Hollywood directors, and glamorous
or struggling artists forms the theme of this book. From box
sets to boxes floating across the seas, from dialectical
thinking to diabolical reckoning: it is all here, laid out,
picked out and unpicked, absorbed and turned over. Rubbish
practices are called out, whether they originate in
governments or the artworld. Cognitive mapping, which may be
the poor analyst's conspiracy theory, gets its abstractions
made real. Read it and move more consciously and
dialectically through the globe.<br>
<i>~ Esther Leslie, author of Walter Benjamin and Synthetic
Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry</i></li>
<li style="padding: 5px 0px;">A grand tour de force of western
cognitive maps and a searching dérive through
anti-capitalist dimensions of theory, media and art - now
pulsing on the rotting flesh of the world system. With
critical acumen, serious political commitment and more than
a modicum of erudite cool, Toscano and Kinkle revisit
Jameson's landmark work on cognitive mapping and, by drawing
extensively on the Marxist critical tradition, forward the
life and death project of teaching readers to read in a
dialectical mode. Grasping the aesthetic as at once program
and battleground, they clearly manifest the necessity, the
stakes, and the fine-grained resolution of a radical
critical practice.<br>
<i>~ Jonathan Beller, author of The Cinematic Mode of
Production</i></li>
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