Charles Chaplin’s ethnographic gaze:: critique of capitalism in Modern Times

Charles Chaplin’s ethnographic gaze:: critique of capitalism in Modern Times

Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times is one of the most revealing cultural documents about the deep sense of capitalist organization of work. How does that old-time film interpellates our contemporaneity? Could something be extracted about that old fictional document for an anthropology of capitalism? Thr...

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spelling oai:ojs2.localhost:article-7282021-03-18T18:54:19Z Charles Chaplin’s ethnographic gaze:: critique of capitalism in Modern Times La mirada etnográfica de Charles Chaplin:: la crítica del capitalismo en Tiempos Modernos Filinich, Natalia Radetich Charles Chaplin, cinema, capitalism, work, technology Charles Chaplin, cine, capitalismo, trabajo, tecnología Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times is one of the most revealing cultural documents about the deep sense of capitalist organization of work. How does that old-time film interpellates our contemporaneity? Could something be extracted about that old fictional document for an anthropology of capitalism? Through an analysis of Chaplin’s cinematography, and especially of Modern Times first scenes, this article sets that chaplinian fiction allows critical questioning about some essential characteristics of capitalist rationality and its intrinsecal violence. Thinking Chaplin as a sort of ethnographer of capitalism, we examine his critique of the relationship between capitalism and marginality, of the modern experience of time, and of the meaning of technology of capital. Stopping at these medullar points of problematization, we analize the chaplinian critic of the mode of production that, centered on private accumulation, produces a collective discomfort of multiple dimensions. Tiempos Modernos, de Charles Chaplin constituye uno de los documentos culturales más reveladores del sentido profundo de la organización capitalista del trabajo. ¿Cómo interpela nuestra contemporaneidad esa película? ¿Qué puede extraerse, para una antropología del capitalismo, de ese viejo documento ficcional? A través de un análisis de la cinematografía de Chaplin y, sobre todo, de las primeras escenas de Tiempos Modernos, se plantea que la ficción chapliniana permite desplegar una interrogación crítica sobre algunos rasgos fundamentales de la racionalidad capitalista y de su violencia intrínseca. Pensando a Chaplin como una suerte de etnógrafo del capitalismo, se examina su crítica a la relación entre capitalismo y marginalidad, a la experiencia moderna del tiempo y al sentido de la tecnología del capital. Deteniéndonos en estos núcleos de problematización, analizamos la crítica chapliniana a un modo de producción que, centrado en la acumulación privada, engendra un malestar colectivo de múltiples dimensiones. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2019-12-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf text/html application/xml http://culturales.uabc.mx/index.php/Culturales/article/view/728 10.22234/recu.20190701.e452 Culturales; Vol. 7 (2019): Continuous Publication Model; 1-42 Culturales; Vol. 7 (2019): Publicación Continua; 1-42 2448-539X 1870-1191 spa http://culturales.uabc.mx/index.php/Culturales/article/view/728/531 http://culturales.uabc.mx/index.php/Culturales/article/view/728/536 http://culturales.uabc.mx/index.php/Culturales/article/view/728/554 Derechos de autor 2019 Natalia Radetich Filinich
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Charles Chaplin’s ethnographic gaze:: critique of capitalism in Modern Times
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description Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times is one of the most revealing cultural documents about the deep sense of capitalist organization of work. How does that old-time film interpellates our contemporaneity? Could something be extracted about that old fictional document for an anthropology of capitalism? Through an analysis of Chaplin’s cinematography, and especially of Modern Times first scenes, this article sets that chaplinian fiction allows critical questioning about some essential characteristics of capitalist rationality and its intrinsecal violence. Thinking Chaplin as a sort of ethnographer of capitalism, we examine his critique of the relationship between capitalism and marginality, of the modern experience of time, and of the meaning of technology of capital. Stopping at these medullar points of problematization, we analize the chaplinian critic of the mode of production that, centered on private accumulation, produces a collective discomfort of multiple dimensions.
publisher Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
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