Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of PossibilityVerso Books, 4 juil. 2017 - 256 pages A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Meanwhile the struggle for dominance over the world is a battlefield with only two protagonists: the forces of neoliberalism on one side, and the new order led by the likes of Trump and Putin on the other. How can we imagine a new emancipatory vision, capable of challenging the deadlock of the present? Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination? |
À l'intérieur du livre
... existence... From this negative sense, we shift unconsciously to the positive sense of the word. In the first definition, possibility means absence of hindrance; but we are shifting now to the meaning pre-existence in the form of an ...
... is merely the fourth dimension of space)? Doesn't the existence of time prove the indeterminacy of things? Isn't time this very indeterminacy?' The old philosophy, he says, was centred on Eternity: Immutable Introduction 3.
... existence. . . This point defines the second reason for Spinoza's contemporaneity. He describes the world as absolute necessity, as presence of necessity.'” The definition of the world as absolute necessity is the foundation of Negri's ...
... existence can be seen as an effect of the subjugation of the soul to the force of power. “Spinoza says that evil is a bad encounter. Encountering abody which mixes badly with your own.' Bad encounters do happen, alas. Lots of them in ...
... existence. This madness is the precondition of the creation of meaning: the groundless construction of knowledge, the invention of the world as a meaningful whole. Then there is the subjective side of madness: the painful sentiment that ...
Table des matières
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POWER | 101 |
NecroCapitalism | 132 |
Money Code and Automation | 148 |
POSSIBILITY | 161 |
Superstition | 176 |
Disentanglement | 190 |
Dynamics of the General Intellect | 214 |
The Inconceivable | 231 |
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