A Study On David Harvey’s Cultural Criticism Of Capital Logic

As one of the representative figures of Neo-Marxism,David Harvey investigated the cultural characteristics of the late capitalist society,inherited Marx’s critical thinking on capitalist society,inherited and developed Marx’s political and economic criticism and Historical materialism On the basis of cultural Materialism,Williams combines capital logic with cultural criticism,and constructs a cultural criticism theory with the characteristics of historical and geographical Materialism.Harvey reexamined Marx’s discussion on the process of capital in Das Kapital,using process Dialectic as the methodology,and demonstrated that the concept of capital logic has three dimensions: time and space,growth and creative destruction.In the discussion of the relationship between capital logic and cultural criticism,Harvey analyzed the changing law of capital logic and cultural logic in capitalist society,and brought them into the vision of historical geography Materialism.Taking the 1972 world economic crisis as the starting point of the late capitalist society,Harvey investigated the splicing phenomenon of social symbolization and daily life caused by the compression of time and space,And point out the virtual economy inversion crisis,cultural interpretation crisis,and political geopolitical conflict crisis in international space caused by capital logic.By further revealing the accelerating phenomenon of cultural landscape production and daily life in late capitalist society,criticizing the rational concepts of capitalism,especially freedom and equality,and warning the alienation of natural ecosystems caused by capital logic,Harvey regards universal alienation as the ultimate cultural result triggered by the operation of capital logic.Harvey believes that the widespread alienation of the capitalist world is a rebellion of human nature,which has triggered large-scale resistance worldwide.It is necessary to establish a humanitarian path to gradually break away from alienation and achieve human free development.The theoretical value of Harvey’s critical theory of culture is reflected in the theoretical development of Political economy,Western Marxism’s critical theory of culture,historical philosophy and alienation theory.Its practical value is reflected in the interpretation of Harvey’s critical theory of culture to the essence of Western capitalist society,the value of China’s ecological civilization construction and the reconstruction of proletarian forces around the world.Although Harvey’s cultural criticism has certain theoretical limitations,it cannot obscure the value reflected in his cultural criticism theory.