John Asimakopoulos

The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste, John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the spectacle conceptualized by philosophers like Guy Debord through a broad interdisciplinary-nonsectarian approach concluding every society is a caste system legitimized by ideology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9789004297043
• ISBN-10: 9004297049
• Artikelnr.: 56733989

Autorenporträt

John Asimakopoulos, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. His publications include Revolt! (Transformative Studies Institute, 2011), The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012, with Eric Shannon and Anthony J. Nocella), Social Structures of Direct Democracy (Brill, 2014), and Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Temple University Press, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
>Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction: Busting out of Plato 's Cave
1 The Symbolic Institution of Society
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3.1
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3.2
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3.3
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3.4
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Beyond Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism
2The Spectacle
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1.1
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3.1
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3.2
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3.3
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3.4
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3.5
Protective Institutions
3 It 's All Spectacular
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2.1
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2.2
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4.1
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4.2
There Is No Spoon: Capital(ism)
4 The Monetization of Everything
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5.1
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5.2
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5.3
Segmented Labor
5 The Structure of Postmodern Caste
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1.3
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2.1
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2.2
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3.1
Mr. Baptist Has Been Too Harsh on the Slavers
Conclusion: Bakunin 's Conundrum
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Index