A. Mubi Brighenti

The Ambiguous Multiplicities (eBook, PDF)

Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude and addresses the question: 'What is the building block of the social?'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137384997
• Artikelnr.: 44915040

Autorenporträt

Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Aggregate Professor of Social Theory at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research threads include space and society, visibility, ethnography and social theory. His recent publications include Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Multiplicities Old and New 2. Urban Crowds, Mediated Publics and Global Masses 3. Population, 'the People' and the Multitude 4. What is the Building Block of the Social? Episteme of the One and the Many 5. Across and Within: Issues of Virality, Imitation and Reactivity Conclusions: Visible Multiplicities and Layered Individuals

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1. Multiplicities Old and New 2. Urban Crowds, Mediated Publics and Global Masses 3. Population, 'the People' and the Multitude 4. What is the Building Block of the Social? Episteme of the One and the Many 5. Across and Within: Issues of Virality, Imitation and Reactivity Conclusions: Visible Multiplicities and Layered Individuals