Late Escapism And Contemporary Neoliberalism
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Late Escapism And Contemporary Neoliberalism
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Author : Greg Sharzer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Late Escapism And Contemporary Neoliberalism written by Greg Sharzer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Social Science categories.
This book suggests that escapism – the desire to leave one’s physical or emotional circumstances for an ideal alternative – is a way to understand the social conflicts that structure our world. Considering this phenomenon across psychology, labour and cultural studies, the author engages with critical theorists such as Lukács, Fromm and Marcuse to examine how escapism appears in our minds, workplaces and utopian imaginaries from fiction to music. In this study, escapism emerges as a constitutive feature of the late capitalist lifeworld – a feature that must be understood in order to create social change. Defining escapism as a new field of study, Late Escapism and Contemporary Neoliberalism: Alienation, Work and Utopia suggests that the phenomenon has much to teach us about contemporary consciousness and how we resist and reshape the edicts of neoliberalism. As such, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural and critical theory, social movements and political sociology.
Late Modernity Individualization And Socialism
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Author : M. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-05-14
Late Modernity Individualization And Socialism written by M. Dawson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Social Science categories.
Influenced most notably by Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.
There Is An Alternative
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Author : Lukas Schutzbach
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-26
There Is An Alternative written by Lukas Schutzbach and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of the cultural logic of late capitalism, and the late Mark Fisher's work on "post-capitalist desire" and "acid communism." The main imperative is to formulate a possible (and, as it turns out, necessary) opening for aesthetic critique in the climate of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. This mode of aesthetic critique is then operationalized through an exemplary reading of the emancipatory poetics of Ben Lerner's 2014 novel "10:04."
Twilight Of The Self
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Author : Michael Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-09
Twilight Of The Self written by Michael Thompson 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 2022-08-09 with Philosophy categories.
In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls the "cybernetic society," a cohesive totalization of the social logics of the institutional spheres of economy, culture and polity. These logics have been progressively defined by the imperatives of economic growth and technical-administrative management of labor and consumption, routinizing patterns of life, practices, and consciousness throughout the culture. Evolving out of the neoliberal transformation of economy and society since the 1980s, the cybernetic society has transformed how that the individual is articulated in contemporary society. Thompson examines the various pathologies of the self and consciousness that result from this form of socialization—such as hyper-reification, alienated moral cognition, false consciousness, and the withered ego—in new ways to demonstrate the extent of deformation of modern selfhood. Only with a more robust, more socially embedded concept of autonomy as critical agency can we begin to reconstruct the principles of democratic individuality and community.
Twilight Of The Self
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Author : Michael Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Twilight Of The Self written by Michael Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Philosophy categories.
In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls the cybernetic society, a cohesive totalization of the social logics of the institutional spheres of economy, culture and polity. These logics have been progressively defined by the imperatives of economic growth and technical-administrative management of labor and consumption, routinizing patterns of life, practices, and consciousness throughout the culture. Evolving out of the neoliberal transformation of economy and society since the 1980s, the cybernetic society has transformed the ways that the individual is articulated in contemporary society. Thompson examines the various pathologies of the self and consciousness that result from this form of socialization--such as hyper-reification, alienated moral cognition, false consciousness, and the withered ego--in new ways to demonstrate the extent of deformation of modern selfhood. Only with a more robust, more socially embedded concept of autonomy as critical agency can we begin to reconstruct the principles of democratic individuality and community.
Late Capitalism And Its Fictitious Future S
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Author : Dennis Geef
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Late Capitalism And Its Fictitious Future S written by Dennis Geef and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with categories.
The Dialectics Of Liberation In Dark Times
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Author : Taylor Hines
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2023-09-04
The Dialectics Of Liberation In Dark Times written by Taylor Hines and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-04 with Political Science categories.
This book develops Marcuse’s critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and its structural failures. In the chapters, Marcuse scholars explore three related topics: First, Marcuse’s theory as it applies to the relationship between neoliberalism and authoritarianism, including both the historical relationship between the two and the modern re-emergence of authoritarianism and nationalism in neoliberal states today. Second, a re-examination of the relationship between neoliberal subjectivity and technological rationality that seeks to understand the stabilizing forces of neoliberal society and the way these forces register at the level of thought. Third and finally, Marcuse’s conception of socialism in conversation with contemporary neoliberal rationality, and ways in which alternatives to the status quo remain possible. Together, this volume contributes to recent discussions of neoliberalism and contribute to the development of Marcuse scholarship.
Detroit Amerikas Niederlage
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Author : Wolfgang Koelbl
language : de
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2024-01-31
Detroit Amerikas Niederlage written by Wolfgang Koelbl and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-31 with Architecture categories.
Detroit ist Amerikas Niederlage. Was einmal die Welthauptstadt der Moderne war, ist heute ein episches Trümmerfeld aus Kriminalität, Drogen, Arbeits- und Trostlosigkeit. Schwärzer kann urbane Romantik nicht werden. Wolfgang Koelbl zeigt, dass diese Niederlage nicht zufällig passiert ist, sondern einem logischen Ablauf folgt. Die USA erzeugen die kraftvollste Version der Moderne und verschulden gerade deswegen die schlimmsten Verwüstungen. Diese fatale Gleichzeitigkeit macht die Niederlage von Detroit zum international einzigartigen Lehrstück. Nur wer verstanden hat, was hier passiert ist, kann eine konstruktive Erneuerung der Moderne in Angriff nehmen.
Ea Sports Fifa
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Author : Raiford Guins
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-07-14
Ea Sports Fifa written by Raiford Guins and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with Social Science categories.
If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, fútbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the digital - EA's football simulation series FIFA - with profound impacts on the multibillion sports and digital game industries, their cultures and players. Throughout its development history, EA's FIFA has managed to adapt to and adopt almost all video game industry trends, becoming an assemblage of game types and technologies that is in itself a multi-faceted probe of the medium's culture, history, and technology. EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game is the first scholarly book to address the importance of EA's FIFA. From looking at the cultures of fandom to analyzing the technical elements of the sports simulation, and covering the complicated relations that EA's FIFA has with gender, embodiment, and masculinity, this collection provides a comprehensive understanding of a video game series that is changing the way the most popular sport in the world is experienced. In doing so, the book serves as a reference text for scholars in many disciplines, including game studies, sociology of sports, history of games, and sports research.
The Ethics Of Neoliberalism
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Author : Peter Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-26
The Ethics Of Neoliberalism written by Peter Bloom and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Business & Economics categories.
The 21st century is the age of "neo-liberalism" – a time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life. Yet how is this changing our individual and collective ethics? Is capitalism also becoming our new morality? From the growing popular demand for corporate social responsibility to personal desire for "work-life balance" it would appear that non-market ideals are not only surviving but also thriving. Why then does it seem that capitalism remains as strong as ever? The Ethics of Neoliberalism boldly proposes that neoliberalism strategically co-opts traditional ethics to ideologically and structurally strengthen capitalism. It produces "the ethical capitalist subject" who is personally responsible for making their society, workplace and even their lives "more ethical" in the face of an immoral but seemingly permanent free market. Rather than altering our morality, neoliberalism "individualizes" ethics, making us personally responsible for dealing with and resolving its moral failings. In doing so, individuals end up perpetuating the very market system that they morally oppose and feel powerless to ultimately change. This analysis reveals the complex and paradoxical way capitalism is currently shaping us as "ethical subjects". People are increasingly asked to ethically "save" capitalism both collectively and personally. This can range from the "moral responsibility" to politically accept austerity following the financial crisis to the willingness of employees to sacrifice their time and energy to make their neoliberal organizations more "humane" to the efforts by individuals to contribute to their family and communities despite the pressures of a franetic global business environment. Neoliberalism, thus, uses our ethics against us, relying on our "good nature" and sense of personal responsibility to reduce its human cost in practice. Ironically