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Capitalism and Nothingness
- Critical Theory in Unwanted Times
Engelsk Hardback
Capitalism and Nothingness
- Critical Theory in Unwanted Times
Engelsk Hardback

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Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse’s one-dimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense.

This is Peter Fleming’s brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist democracies. The scene is set in no-dimensional man’s natural habitats – the modern office, the corporate suite, the government bureau and the corporate university. In these treacherous climes Fleming reveals the dark power relations currently shaping the post-industrial system. This deep dive into the post-industrial pit explains the failure of capitalism in terms of its most contagious symptoms, including micro-jobs, multinational spread, shadow banking, financial predation, the working poor, and government by algorithm. Beset by every malaise of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, no-dimensional man is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness characterizing capitalism today.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9781350441880
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1350441880
Udg. Dato:
20 feb 2025
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
146mm
Højde:
218mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
20 feb 2025
Forfatter(e):
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