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Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism - Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future (Paperback)
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Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism - Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future (Paperback)
Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society
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Commentators across the political spectrum have argued that the
future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we
cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the
ability to imagine change-culturally, socially, and politically-has
become one of the defining problems of our time. But what is the
difference between the populist narratives of those who promise to
solve this problem by returning us to a glorious past and those who
promise to lead us into a glorious future? Often, this book argues,
not very much at all. Revealing neo-authoritarianism and capitalist
hyper-innovation as two sides of the same coin, Mathias Nilges
shows that today's reactionaries and futurists both harness and
profit from the same temporal crises of our present. Looking to
design, popular culture, literature, and recent theoretical and
political discussions, Nilges offers ways of understanding the
re-emergence of familiar and disturbing forms of right-wing
politics and culture (authoritarianism, paternalism, fascism) not
as historical repetition but as dangerous consequences of the
contradictions of capitalism today. Using critical theory, in
particular the work of Ernst Bloch, this book recovers a politics
and culture of hope, which it locates beyond a future that is
colonized by capitalism and a past that becomes the mystical
playground for the new Right:in that which was never allowed to be
and thus demands realization.
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