Abstract

VARGAS-MUNOZ, Roberto; GASIC-KLETT, Ivo  and  NARVAEZ-LEON, Angelo. Elements for an Immanent Critique of the Political Economy of Modern Space. Convergencia [online]. 2022, vol.29, e17440.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 2448-5799.  https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v29i0.17440.

Our purpose is to present a logical sequence that accounts for the way in which the critique of political economy (Marx) is categorically articulated and configured with the production of space (Lefebvre). Methodologically, we carry out a comparative categorical approach to the concepts of criticism, immanence, production, modern space-time, and the urban from various epistemological trajectories as primary and secondary sources. Our results indicate that an immanent critique of the political economy of space makes it possible to delimit the critique of capital and the production of modern space-time as a social totality. We conclude that the critique of modernity from the critique of the political economy of space is a critique of the abstract logic of value and its expression in the social production of abstract space-time, where urban space is the geographic space produced for the reproduction of capital and the place of exchange where the totality of mercantile production takes place.

Keywords : critique of political economy of space; immanent critique; modern space-time; urbanization..