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TO LIVE AND THINK LIKE PIGS
THE INCITEMENT OF ENVY AND BOREDOM IN MARKET DEMOCRACIES |
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Gilles Chatelet, Alain Badiou, Robin Mackay (Trans) |
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ISBN 10: |
0983216967 |
ISBN 13: |
9780983216964 |
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Publisher: |
URBANOMIC MEDIA LTD |
Pub. date: |
28 October, 2014 |
Pages: |
190 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
A startlingly prescient treatise on the cybernetic automation of society, Gilles Chatelet's coruscating condemnation of market democracy, a bestseller in France on its publication in 1998, mercilessly dissects the alibis of neoliberalism, the delusions of the 'nomadic' bourgeoisie and their faith in 'chaos' and 'creativity'. |
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An uproarious portrait of the evils of the market and a technical manual for its innermost ideological workings, this is the story of how the perverted legacy of liberalism sought to knead Marx's 'free peasant' into a statistical 'average man'-pliant raw material for the sausage-machine of postmodernity. Combining the incandescent wrath of the betrayed comrade with the acute discrimination of the mathematician-physicist, Gilles Chatelet scrutinizes the pseudoscientific alibis employed to naturalize 'market democracy' and the 'triple alliance' between politics, economics, and cybernetics. Crucial reading for any future politics that wants to replace individualism with individuation and libertarianism with liberation, this new translation constitutes a major contribution to contemporary debate on neoliberalism, economics and capitalist subjectivation. |
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Urbanomic |
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