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Debt - Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy (Paperback): Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks Debt - Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy (Paperback)
Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Contributions by Richard D. Wolff, Elaine Lewinnek, Mary Poovey, …
R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist s dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations."

From Utopia to Apocalypse - Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe (Paperback): Peter Y. Paik From Utopia to Apocalypse - Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe (Paperback)
Peter Y. Paik
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I read Peter Y. Paik's lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." --Bruce Sterling Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences to reflect on the politics and societal ills of the day. Through character and story, science fiction brings theory to life, giving shape to the motivations behind the action as well as to the consequences they produce. In "From Utopia to Apocalypse," Peter Y. Paik shows how science fiction generates intriguing and profound insights into politics. He reveals that the fantasy of putting annihilating omnipotence to beneficial effect underlies the revolutionary projects that have defined the collective upheavals of the modern age. Paik traces how this political theology is expressed, and indeed literalized, in popular superhero fiction, examining works including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's graphic novel "Watchmen," the science fiction cinema of Jang Joon-Hwan, the manga of Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta," and the Matrix trilogy. Superhero fantasies are usually seen as compensations for individual feelings of weakness, victimization, and vulnerability. But Paik presents these fantasies as social constructions concerned with questions of political will and the disintegration of democracy rather than with the psychology of the personal. What is urgently at stake, Paik argues, is a critique of the limitations and deadlocks of the political imagination. The utopias dreamed of by totalitarianism, which must be imposed through torture, oppression, and mass imprisonment, nevertheless persist in liberal political systems. With this reality looming throughout, Paik demonstrates the uneasy juxtaposition of saintliness and cynically manipulative realpolitik, of torture and the assertion of human dignity, of cruelty and benevolence.

Debt - Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy (Hardcover): Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks Debt - Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy (Hardcover)
Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Contributions by Richard D. Wolff, Elaine Lewinnek, Mary Poovey, …
R2,567 R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Save R652 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist s dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations."

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