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Capitalism and the Camera keyword-chinese-politics not as philosophical abstractions butPhotography was invented between the publication of Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engelss The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalisms violenceand if so, how?