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The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a
groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading
scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of
corporate-state structures of hegemonic power-what the editors
refer to as "the power complex"-that was first analyzed by C.
Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new
volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II,
and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as
co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of
domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the
transnational institutional relationships of the power complex
combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and
industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production,
While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as
separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as
overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and
which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st
century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex-a grand
power complex of complexes-thus poses one of the most formidable
challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom
and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to
it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global
Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this
emerging educational and political project.
The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a
groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading
scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of
corporate-state structures of hegemonic power-what the editors
refer to as "the power complex"-that was first analyzed by C.
Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new
volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II,
and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as
co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of
domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the
transnational institutional relationships of the power complex
combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and
industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production,
While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as
separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as
overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and
which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st
century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex-a grand
power complex of complexes-thus poses one of the most formidable
challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom
and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to
it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global
Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this
emerging educational and political project.
Lord Kahn was a leading figure in the development of modern
economic theory. Not only did he play a vital role in the
conception of the new theories of employment and money in the
inter-war period, but he also made important contributions to the
further development of monetary theory and the theories of economic
growth during the last half of the twentieth century. This
selection of essays illustrates the broad range of Lord Kahn's
achievement, from the path-breaking 'multiplier' article to a
recent essay on the growth of corporate firms. It brings together
both papers previously published in academic journals and papers
published elsewhere, including his important evidence to the
Radcliffe Committee and two radio talks on Lord Keynes.
We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that
poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role
can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning
catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences -
including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional
ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today's
grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth
liberation, and other radical social movements - this book offers
the foundations of a philosophy of ecopedagogy for the global
north. In so doing, it poses challenges to today's dominant
ecoliteracy paradigms and programs, such as education for
sustainable development, while theorizing the needed reconstruction
of critical pedagogy itself in light of our presently disastrous
ecological conditions. Students and teachers of critical pedagogy
at all levels, as well as those involved in environmental studies
and various forms of sustainability education, will find this book
a powerful provocation to adjust their thinking and practice to
better align with those who seek to abolish forms of culture
predicated upon planetary extermination and the domination of
nature.
The foundations of the treatment of the short period were laid by
Marshall, and it is his discussion of the concept in "Principles"
and his conception of quasi-rent which, together with the additions
of later economists, provide the material upon which the author
elaborates here.
Demons and Prophets is a tale of the seeker, Draamanu, and his
journey to find the lost child within the gates of the drowned
city. Attacked and tormented by various demons along the way,
Draamanu is guided by providence in the form of prophets who give
him the wisdom and strength to continue on his quest to find the
Lost Child. Set in a mythic backdrop and illustrated by fantastic
and otherworldly images of doom and rapture, this is a classic
story of love and light trying to vanquish the forces of darkness
and decay.
This is the academic Age of the Neoliberal Arts. Campuses-as places
characterized by democratic debate and controversy, wide ranges of
opinion typical of vibrant public spheres, and service to the
larger society-are everywhere being creatively destroyed in order
to accord with market and military models befitting the
academic-industrial complex. While it has become increasingly clear
that facilitating the sustainability movement is the great 21st
century educational challenge at hand, this book asserts that it is
both a dangerous and criminal development today that sustainability
in higher education has come to be defined by the complex-friendly
"green campus" initiatives of science, technology, engineering and
management programs. By contrast, Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy
Through the Liberal Arts takes the standpoints of those working for
environmental and ecological justice in order to critique the
unsustainable disciplinary limitations within the humanities and
social sciences, as well as provide tactical reconstructive
openings toward an empowered liberal arts for sustainability.
Greening the Academy thus hopes to speak back with a collective
demand that sustainability education be defined as a critical and
moral vocation comprised of the diverse types of humanistic study
that will benefit the well-being of our emerging planetary
community and its numerous common locales.
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