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The Ambiguous Multiplicities - Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations (Hardcover, New)
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The Ambiguous Multiplicities - Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations (Hardcover, New)
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At the end of the 19th century, two famous predictions were
advanced for the coming 20th century: while Le Bon prophesied that
the coming century would have been the age of crowds, Tarde replied
that the new century would have been the age of publics. Even in
retrospect, it is not easy to tell who was right. This book
proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social
formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In
particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global
masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude. By
doing so, it questions the image of the individual and addresses
the question: 'What is the building block of the social?'.
Imitation, contagion, suggestion and other phenomena of circulation
within multiplicities put the idea of the individual as the
building block of the social under strain. The notions of
transformation and phase transition are explored as possible
alternative views.
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