On Freedom - Technology, Capital, Medium (Paperback, HPOD)

How do we challenge the structures of late capitalism if all possible media through which to do do is inescapably capitalist? This urgent political question is at the heart of Peter Trawny's major new work. With searing precision Trawny demonstrates how our world has become wholly determined by technology, capital, and the medium. In this world of the 'TCM', we universal subjects remain in a state of apathy that is temporarily punctuated, but also reinforced, by the phantasmatic dream of difference offered us by the 'Hollywood machine.' Our sole motivation is to gain money and the power it brings. The only meaningful difference in the world of the TCM universal is the difference between wealth and poverty. Freedom is then only the freedom to dispose of things (particularly technological objects) and to gain pleasure. It makes our relation to our surroundings essentially 'touristic,' and our relation to the earth an essentially exploitative one. The notion of personal or societal freedom has never been more controversial or, seemingly, more far from our grasp. While exploring in details the difficulties we face in our attempts to be free, Trawny builds a vision of how to break out of the mediums in which we operate and experience a new kind of freedom. Escape from the TCM universal is impossible. Yet philosophy itself is the impossible. So when Trawny writes that "escape-the other-is impossible," we can read this both as "escape is impossible" and as "escape is the impossible," that is, the only possible escape is through philosophy.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Peter Trawny
Translators:	Richard Lambert
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	HPOD
ISBN-13:	978-1-4742-7303-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Promotions
LSN:	1-4742-7303-3
Barcode:	9781474273039

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