Homo Mythos
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-5202-2 (ISBN)
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A mythic consciousness is on the rise.
The figure of Homo Mythos can be deciphered today as surplus populations emerge as powerful agents, acting in open territory, free from the determinations of capitalism, liberalism, democracy and right-wing populisms. They spawn a notion of the mythic which foregrounds social contradictions and engenders visions of a communist future.
Saroj Giri traces the contours of such a paradoxical figure in Bhima Koregaon in India, the celebration of the mythical powers of an army of Untouchables fighting Brahmin rulers in the Battle of Koregaon in 1818. This commemoration led to the widespread arrest and detention of activists by the Modi regime in 2018.
Mytho-poetic tales and memories of a brave and independent pre-Buddhist totemic People-of-the-Snake, called Nagvanshis, intertwine with communistic battles of indigenous adivasis against big capital and the modern state. Here is a class struggle which, as Walter Benjamin once imagined, is nourished by the image of enslaved ancestors rather than that of liberated grandchildren.
Homo Mythos anticipates and animates class struggle in the Information Age.
Saroj Giri is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Delhi. Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, and many more.
Introductory Essay by Slavoj Zizek
Preface
Part I
1. Marx Reads Conspiracy Theory
2. Mythic Consciousness
3. The Exceptionality of Bhima Koregaon
Part II
4. Unworking and Sacrifice
5. Unworking Indian Modernity and Civilisation
Part III
6. Bhima Koregaon: Enslaved Ancestors
7. The Arrests: Smile of the Cheshire Cat
8. Before the Law: Lacanian Real
Part IV
9. Virtue, Politics and Mythic Consciousness
Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.12.2026 |
|---|---|
| Einführung | Slavoj Zizek |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7453-5202-2 / 0745352022 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-5202-2 / 9780745352022 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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