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The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times

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First of all, we would like to highlight the fact that the coronavirus has shaken one of the most powerful instruments of socio-economic-political control: commodity fetishism.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. I, ed. Ben Fowkes (New York: Penguin, 1990), 164.

  2. 2.

    Marx, Capital, 165.

  3. 3.

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, On Religion (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1982), 22.

  4. 4.

    Walter Benjamin, Das Passagen-Werk: Gesammelte Schriften Band, vol. 1 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991).

  5. 5.

    See Pierre Assoun, Le Fétichisme (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994) and Ulrich Erckenbrecht, Des Geheimnis des Fetischismus (Frankfurt: Europäisches Verlagsanstalt, 1976). “Nigritia” was the name Europeans called North Africa.

  6. 6.

    Marcel Mauss, Oeuvres II (Paris: Minuit, 1969), 244–245.

  7. 7.

    Mauss, Oeuvres II, 43.

  8. 8.

    Mauss, 79.

  9. 9.

    Mauss, xlv.

  10. 10.

    Mauss, xlvi.

  11. 11.

    Herbert Marcuse, Negations, trans. Jeremy Shapiro (London: Penguin Books, 1968), 183–184.

  12. 12.

    Marcuse, Negations, 5.

  13. 13.

    Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (London: Routledge, 1991), 241.

  14. 14.

    Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), 16.

  15. 15.

    Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, 3.

  16. 16.

    Herbert Marcuse, “Cultural Revolution,” in Towards a Critical Theory of Society: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, ed Douglas Kellner, vol. 2 (London: Routledge, 2001), 128.

  17. 17.

    Marcuse, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, 129. “Only through the objectively unfolded richness of man’s essential being is the richness of subjective human sensibility (a musical ear, an eye for beauty of form – in short, senses capable of human gratification, senses affirming themselves as essential powers of man [sic]) either cultivated or brought into being.”

  18. 18.

    Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscript of 1844, ed Dirk J. Struik (New York: International Publishers, 1964), p.141; apud Herbert Marcuse Counterrevolution and Revolt (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972), 64–65.

  19. 19.

    Marcuse, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, 69.

  20. 20.

    Herbert Marcuse, Counterrevolution and Revolt , 71–72.

  21. 21.

    Marcuse, vii.

  22. 22.

    Herbert Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), 4–5.

  23. 23.

    Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation, 21.

  24. 24.

    Marcuse, Counterrevolution and Revolt, 74.

  25. 25.

    Bruce Albert, Trans Nicholas Elliot and Alison Dundy, “Setting the Scene,” in The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013), 1.

  26. 26.

    Albert and Kopenawa’s book was first published in France, with the title La chute de ciel: paroles d´un chaman Yanomami (Ed. Plon, 2010), then translated into English (2013), and only published in Brazil in 2015 (A queda do céu. Palavras de um xamã yanomami). Professor Bruce Albert lives part of the year with the Yanomami. He is married to Kopenawa’s daughter, who refuses to live in Paris.

  27. 27.

    Terence Turner and Davi Kopenawa, “I Fight Because I Am Alive: An Interview with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami,” Cultural Survival Quarterly, n. 91, 63.

  28. 28.

    Kopenawa and Albert, The Falling Sky, 31.

  29. 29.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 495.

  30. 30.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 56.

  31. 31.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 104–105.

  32. 32.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 56–57.

  33. 33.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 100.

  34. 34.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 111.

  35. 35.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 280.

  36. 36.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 327.

  37. 37.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 338.

  38. 38.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 333.

  39. 39.

    Karl Marx, Capital. See Chapter 1, Section 4, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof.”

  40. 40.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 327.

  41. 41.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 338.

  42. 42.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 331.

  43. 43.

    The Yanomami word for the English Satan.

  44. 44.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 327.

  45. 45.

    Kopenawa and Albert, 525.

  46. 46.

    Marcuse, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, 138–139.

  47. 47.

    Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, A inconstância da alma selvagem – e outros ensaios de antropologia (São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2002), 349.

  48. 48.

    Marcuse, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, 197.

  49. 49.

    Marcuse, Negations, 94.

  50. 50.

    Marcuse, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, 195.

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    Imaculada Kangussu

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  1. Honors College, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Taylor Hines

  2. Social Science, Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz, Germany

    Peter-Erwin Jansen

  3. Leadership and Integrative Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Robert E. Kirsch

  4. Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Terry Maley

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Kangussu, I. (2023). 2020: Nature Said “Stop”. In: Hines, T., Jansen, PE., Kirsch, R.E., Maley, T. (eds) The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22488-1_16

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