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Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded (Hardcover)
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Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Liminality
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This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the
transformation of entities through an alteration of their
identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of
many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation,
communism or globalisation, the author demonstrates not only the
widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics, but also
the acceleration of their deployment. A study of the steady growth
of power as it reaches a continuous and permanent stage, thus
avoiding the inherent difficulties connected with birth and death
of political organisations and institutions, this volume reveals
political alchemy to be a form of self-sustaining growth through
sterile multiplication, devoid of meaning. Revealing both the
integrative and disintegrative nature of a political process that,
while appearing to work in the interests of all, in fact produces
apathy, desperate mobilisation and despair by crushing concrete
entities such as personality and tradition, Political Alchemy:
Technology Unbounded will appeal to scholars of sociology and
anthropology with interests in social theory and political thought.
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