Capitalism and Nothingness
Critical Theory in Unwanted Times
Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44187-3 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44187-3 (ISBN)
Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse’s one-dimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense.
This is Peter Fleming’s brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist democracies. The scene is set in no-dimensional man’s natural habitats – the modern office, the corporate suite, the government bureau and the corporate university. In these treacherous climes Fleming reveals the dark power relations currently shaping the post-industrial system. This deep dive into the post-industrial pit explains the failure of capitalism in terms of its most contagious symptoms, including micro-jobs, multinational spread, shadow banking, financial predation, the working poor, and government by algorithm. Beset by every malaise of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, no-dimensional man is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness characterizing capitalism today.
This is Peter Fleming’s brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist democracies. The scene is set in no-dimensional man’s natural habitats – the modern office, the corporate suite, the government bureau and the corporate university. In these treacherous climes Fleming reveals the dark power relations currently shaping the post-industrial system. This deep dive into the post-industrial pit explains the failure of capitalism in terms of its most contagious symptoms, including micro-jobs, multinational spread, shadow banking, financial predation, the working poor, and government by algorithm. Beset by every malaise of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, no-dimensional man is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness characterizing capitalism today.
Peter Fleming is a Professor in the Management Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Preface: This World We Must Leave
Chapter 1: No-Dimensional Man
Chapter 2: Point Blank Capitalism
Chapter 3: Ex Nihilio Nihil Fit
Chapter 4: Gothika Economica
Chapter 5: The New Black
Chapter 6: Sleep Mode
Chapter 7: Necromathmatics
Chapter 8: A Requiem for Touch
Chapter 9: Void Perfect
Conclusion: Negation of the Fittest
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 214 mm |
| Gewicht | 299 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-44187-2 / 1350441872 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-44187-3 / 9781350441873 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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