Book launch - The Automatic Fetish by Dr. Beverley Best

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Time, Technology, and Capitalism (CIRTTC) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) working group "Algorithmic Technology and Society" is inviting you to celebrate the launch of The Automatic Fetish - The Law of Value in Marx's Capital with Dr. Beverley Best.

The Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central through line of the entire work, Beverley Best elaborates a theory of movement through which the capital machine generates social forms of appearance as the inversion of its inner operating
mechanisms. Neither a return to basics nor a new-fangled reconstruction, The Automatic Fetish eschews novelty to show once again that Marx rewards careful study.

About the author:

Dr. Beverley Best is a professor in Concordia University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, with a focus on Marx’s critique of political economy. She is the author of Marx and Dynamic of Capital Formation: An Aesthetics of Political Economy and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. She is the vice-president of the Marxist Literary Group.

Join us for a conversation between Dr. Best and Dr. Jonathan Martineau, assistant professor at Concordia’s Liberal Arts College and Director of CIRTTC. Dr. Martineau’s research explores time, technology, and critical theory, and he is the co-author of Algorithmic Capital: Accumulation, Power, and Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Details:

Where: Co-op Bar Milton Parc, 3714 av. du Parc, Montreal

When: 5 p.m. - 8p.m. (talk begins at 6 p.m.)

We’ll conclude the evening with a drink to celebrate this exciting release. Drinks available to purchase at the bar. Feel free to bring your own food and snacks!

Copies of the book will also be available for purchase.