Capitalist Sorcery

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Breaking the Spell

ISBN: 0230237622
ISBN 13: 9780230237629
Autor: Pignarre, P/Stengers, I
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxiv, 159 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

The cry ‚another world is possible‘ is relevant now more than everAn account of capitalism and the possibilities for resistance to it that dismisses the poisonous effects of the modern/pre-modern divisionOffers a way to shift work from science studies into the political arenaExemplary text from important voices from the broad tradition of continental philosophyAn unusual articulation of political theory via neo-pagan practices of non-violent protest (direct action)

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Beschreibung

Capitalist Sorcery neither sets out a new political programme nor offers a new theory. Rather, it aims to encourage all those who are resistant to resignation and inertia, whose stories of partial successes must be told, celebrated and shared.

Autorenporträt

PHILIPPE PIGNARRE writer, activist and the director of Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, at La Découverte in Paris. He has written extensively on the pharmaceutical industry, on psychotherapy and more recently on Olivier Besancenot and the NPA (Nouvelle Parti Anticapitaliste) in France. ISABELLE STENGERS philosopher of science and the author of more than two dozen books on the philosophy of science and the politics of knowledge. Once a student of Ilya Prigogine, with whom she wrote Order out of Chaos, Stengers has written book length studies of hypnosis and the history of chemistry. Her more recent work - on cosmopolitics and on Alfred North Whitehead - is currently in press in translation. ANDREW GOFFEY Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication at Middlesex University, UK. A writer and a translator he researches on the links between philosophy, science and culture and is the author (with Matthew Fuller) of Evil Media. He has translated numerous articles in the field of philosophy by Isabelle Stengers, Barbara Cassin and Eric Alliez, amongst others.

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