Cartographies of the Absolute

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.

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Theatre of Production and Fanaticism, translator of Alain Badiou's The Century and Logics of Worlds and co-editor of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings and On Beckett. He has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy, politics and social theory, and is an editor of Historical Materialism. 
Jeff Kinkle is a writer, translator and law student based in New York. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, and is a member of the SITE Magazine editorial board and the art-collectives Sakerna and Everyone Agrees.