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Against Progress
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Author : Slavoj Žižek
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-10-31
Against Progress written by Slavoj Žižek and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-31 with Philosophy categories.
To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Žižek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises? In thirteen iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Žižek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress. Anatomizing what is lost when opponents of the future are allowed to define it, Žižek ruthlessly exposes what different visions of progress exclude or sacrifice and the dynamics of desire, denial and disavowal at work in Hollywood blockbusters, Buddhist economics, decolonization movements and other engines of vision. In a whirlwind tour that takes in everything from gentrification to the theory of relativity, Lacan to Lenin, Putin to Mary Poppins and Marine Le Pen to the end of the world, these essays never stop asking hard questions of imagined futures. Nor does Žižek shrink from the hardest question of all: How do we free ourselves from the hypocritical, guilt-ridden dreaming in which we're enmeshed, and begin to build a better world?
Against Progress
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Author : Jessica Silbey
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Against Progress written by Jessica Silbey and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Law categories.
When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "progress of science and the useful arts" by granting rights to authors and inventors. Today, when rapid technological evolution accompanies growing wealth inequality and political and social divisiveness, the constitutional goal of "progress" may pertain to more basic, human values, redirecting IP's emphasis to the commonweal instead of private interests. Against Progress considers contemporary debates about intellectual property law as concerning the relationship between the constitutional mandate of progress and fundamental values, such as equality, privacy, and distributive justice, that are increasingly challenged in today's internet age. Following a legal analysis of various intellectual property court cases, Jessica Silbey examines the experiences of everyday creators and innovators navigating ownership, sharing, and sustainability within the internet eco-system and current IP laws. Crucially, the book encourages refiguring the substance of "progress" and the function of intellectual property in terms that demonstrate the urgency of art and science to social justice today.
Feminism Against Progress
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Author : Mary Harrington
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-04-25
Feminism Against Progress written by Mary Harrington and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with Political Science categories.
Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else's happiness for their sake. Mary Harrington shows that women's liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. This shift may benefit the elites, but it also makes it easier to commodify women's bodies, human intimacy, and female reproductive abilities. "Feminism" has been captured by well-off white-collar women, who use it to advance their own economic and political interests under the pretense that these are the interests of all women—all the while wielding the term like a club against anyone, male or female, who dissents. Feminism against Progress is a stark warning against a dystopian future in which poor women become little more than convenient sources of body parts to be harvested and wombs to be rented by the rich. "Progress" no longer benefits the majority of women, and only a feminism that is skeptical of it can truly defend their interests in the twenty-first century.
Populism Against Progress
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Author : Robert Corfe
language : en
Publisher: Arena books
Release Date : 2007
Populism Against Progress written by Robert Corfe and has been published by Arena books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
The increasing complexity of industrial society, together with the prospect of economic and environmental threats on a scale never before experienced, entails an ever-great demand on the educational and citizenship-skills of the ordinary individual. An appropriately educated public is needed to ensure effective democracy, and also, that suitably qualified men and women are elected to power - and this is something which transcends the narrow factor of party politics.Unfortunately, as this book demonstrates, in the industrialised world today we live in a society where standards of education and good citizenship are declining, relative to the increasing complexity of the financial-industrial infrastructure, and the prospect of unprecedented threats on the horizon. The author attributes this decline to what he identifies as populism, defined as the short-termism of the easy option which compounds rather than resolves the issues of life. These are traced to two main sources: firstly, the faulty values promoted by or arising from political decision-making; and secondly, from the malign influence of marketing forces on public attitudes in dumbing-down standards in so many spheres of life.Whilst a new perspective is put on politics, of most significance is the emphasis placed on education. The question of maintaining high culture, and correlating this with the needs of a classless and democratic society, is a theme which dominates the book. The appeal for raising aspirational standards in a heterogeneous society, challenge some of the totemic ideas in contemporary education, such as the questionable value of relativism and post-modernism as a preparation for good citizenship.A sociological analysis of populism reveals it as the cancer of democracy. The breadth of the subject matter covers such issues as Islamic fundamentalism in barring the path to progress; the self-destructiveness of Western politics through a facile view of our real condition; and a glance at the arts. A broad canvas, covering many disciplines in the social sciences, is evoked in furthering the crucial arguments in this interesting book.
Report On Progress Of The Works Program
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938-06
Report On Progress Of The Works Program written by United States. Work Projects Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938-06 with Public works categories.
Gesta Christ Or A History Of Humane Progress Under Christianity
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Author : Charles Loring Brace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Gesta Christ Or A History Of Humane Progress Under Christianity written by Charles Loring Brace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Christianity categories.
The Platform Its Rise And Progress
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Author : Henry Lorenzo Jephson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Platform Its Rise And Progress written by Henry Lorenzo Jephson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Great Britain categories.
The Sea Ideas And Observations On Progress In The Study Of The Seas
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Author : Kenneth H. Brink
language : en
Publisher: Wiley
Release Date : 1998-01-07
The Sea Ideas And Observations On Progress In The Study Of The Seas written by Kenneth H. Brink and has been published by Wiley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-07 with Science categories.
The Sea is a prestigious series with a history going back to the classic three volume treatise published by Wiley in 1962-63. Now, under the leadership of Allan Robinson, the series is again being extended with five new volumes currently planned that emphasizing the interaction of physical, chemical and biological oceanography. "Coastal Ocean Phenomena" is the first of these new volumes, and it deals with the general principles governing ocean phenomena in regions of shallower water near land. Processes such as tidal effects, global sea level changes, biological productivity, and sediment transport are analyzed. Models and methods are emphasized, including remote sensing, models of coastal ocean circulation, and data acquisition. Volume 10 presents the general principles, and volume 11 is organized geographically to presents the results of 35 of regional studies: Eastern North America, the Caribbean, the North Sea and Baltic, the Mediterranean Sea, and so forth. Volume 10 is a readable and systematic introduction to coastal oceanography that is suitable for use with college courses, while volume 11 is a much larger reference work. Note that volumes 10 and 11 are available together as a set (ISBN 0471-11543-6, tent $175.00.).
The Dublin Review
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Author : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.
The Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
The Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with American literature categories.