A timely book addressing the burning concerns of our times, from
the excesses of capitalism to the global crisis of leadership.
There is widespread agreement, across a voluble political
spectrum and around the planet, that we live in times of
intensifying insecurity and turmoil. If ours is an age of
transition, its direction is anything but certain. Momentous
transformations in ecology, geopolitics, and everyday life are
shadowed by a suffocating sense of stasis. The limits to capital
and the limits of nature are entangled in frightful ways, while the
profoundly obsolete form of leadership, domination, and conflict
exacerbate an already baleful situation. And yet struggles for
liberation have not been quelled. Terms of Disorder confronts this
moment by probing some of the defining terms in the modern
vocabulary of emancipation, with the aim of testing their capacity
to name and orient collective action set on abolishing the present
state of things. Ranging from communism to leadership, the eleven
keywords addressed in this book provide a set of interlocking
points of entry into the common task of forging a political
language capable of navigating our disorientation. If, as Gramsci
famously noted, the interregnum is a time when the new struggles to
be born while the old order is moribund, we may wish to heed Cedric
Robinson’s call to “choose wisely among the dying.”
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Alberto Toscano
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Dimensions: |
9 x 6mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
242 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80309-177-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80309-177-0 |
Barcode: |
9781803091778 |
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