Anselm Jappe
Born in Germany in 1962, ANSELM JAPPE is one of the key proponents of "the critique of value" school in France today. He is the author of several major works of critical theory, including Guy Debord (University of California Press, 1999), Les Aventures de la marchandise: pour une nouvelle critique de la valeur (Denoël, 2003), Crédit à mort (2011) and, with Robert Kurz, Les Habits neufs de l'empire (Lignes, 2004). He currently lectures in both art history and sociology in universities across France and Italy. "Politics Without Politics" is an excerpt from a forthcoming translation of Crédit à mort by Alastair Hemmens, John McHale, and Mike DeSocio.
Politics Without Politics
By Anselm JappeMust it be taken then as an article of faith that opposition to capitalism, or to its contemporary excesses, goes via what is commonly called politics? It is clear that nothing would have changed if Ségolène Royal, the 2007 French Socialist Party candidate for president, had been elected instead of rightist Nicolas Sarkozy.
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