Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination - Softcover

Graeber, David

 
9781570272431: Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1570272433 ISBN 13: 9781570272431
Verlag: Minor Compositions, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist for the simple reason that it's impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can't imagine an alternative that wouldn't be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it?



In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places.



At a moment when the old assumption about politics and power have been irrefutably broken the only real choice is to begin again: to create a new language, a new common sense, about what people basically are and what it is reasonable for them to expect from the world, and from each other. In this volume Graeber draws from the realms of politics, art, and the imagination to start this conversation and to suggest that the task might not be nearly so daunting as we'd be given to imagine.

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David Graeber is an anarchist, an anthropologist, and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. He teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths. He is the author of multiple books including DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS (Melville House). His previous books include DIRECT ACTION: AN ETHNOGRAPHY (AK Press), POSSIBILITIES (AK Press), and FRAGMENTS OF AN ANARCHIST ANTHROPOLOGY (Prickly Paradigm).

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Verlag
Minor Compositions
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1570272433
ISBN 13 
9781570272431
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120
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