Crisis

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches crisis from two angles. On the philosophical level, he takes up an idea from Hegel: philosophy is "the daughter of crisis." The great advances in thought occur when society is shaken as a whole, as with the fall of the Greek city-state or the decline of the Ancien Régime1. There is crisis when the same words no longer mean the same things to the same individuals2. Crisis and critique share the same root, and it is crisis that gives rise to critique, not the other way round3. On the economic level, he draws on Marx. The present crisis began in the 1970s with financialization and the decoupling of the dollar from gold4. It is the crisis Marx foretold, postponed by the Second World War, and capital only ever wins reprieves5. He compares it to 1929 and stresses that with each crisis, capital performs a "reset" through carnage on a planetary scale6.

1. 1Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault2 May 2019 · 1:03:48
2. 2Platon14 Sept 2015 · 1:04:11
3. 3Adamov (Arthur)18 Feb 2016 · 41:25
4. 4Y comme Yonville8 Jan 2015 · 11:16
5. 5Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 1:00:53
6. 6AFRIQUE SAHÉLIENNE ET IMPÉRIALISME : Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - avec Dominique PAGANI23 Mar 2024 · 58:54

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