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Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-577-2
EAN 9781784785772
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-423-8
EAN 9781786634238
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "Alt-Right" leaders mystifies many. But the extreme Right has been growing steadily in the US since the 1990s, with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists found ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 106 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-328-6
EAN 9781786633286
Since his murder 50 years ago in Bolivia, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic-one of ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-092-6
EAN 9781786630926
Deemed by Arthur C. Clarke to be "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made", The World, the Flesh and the Devil is most famous for having been the first to propose the so-called Bernal Sphere, a type of space habitat intended for permanent residence. Written by one of the most well-known and controversial ...
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Ilya Prigogine; Stengers, Isabelle
Order Out of Chaos
Man's New Dialogue with Nature
- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-100-8
EAN 9781786631008
Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-426-9
EAN 9781786634269
Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the philosophy of science, Sheehan shows how Marx's and Engel's ideas on the development and structure of natural science had ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-410-8
EAN 9781786634108
By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people in the world-whether in colonies, developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover, from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-085-2
EAN 9781784780852
Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book proposes a new mode of dialectical resistance, countering notions of the "state of exception" embedded in ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-288-3
EAN 9781786632883
Mainstream politics is stuck, torn between the redundant doctrines of Keynesianism and neoliberalism. Neither have much to offer a world facing environmental collapse, civic breakdown and a gathering crisis of permanent unemployment. This dismal, managerial politics fails to articulate a vision of a better world, driving people towards the anti-politics offered by Donald Trump and ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-188-6
EAN 9781786631886
Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-196-1
EAN 9781786631961
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78663-296-8
EAN 9781786632968
The Weight of Things is the first book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007), and the first to be translated into English. After winning acclaim with this novel - awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978 - she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called 'The Fortress,' which earned her cult status, comparisons ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 30,41 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-319-8
EAN 9781784783198
"Latinx" (pronounced 'La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country. This is the fastest-growing sector of American society, containing the most immigrants. It is the poorest ethnic group in the country, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-299-9
EAN 9781786632999
Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "soft left" one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist now leads Labour with a huge mandate. For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda-and for the first time in Labour's ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-054-4
EAN 9781786630544
The idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs is today invoked by the West in order to demonize and psychologize any non-liberal politics. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted interpretation in exploring the critical role fanaticism played in forming modern politics and ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 225 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-132-9
EAN 9781786631329
What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. It is in our relationship with non-humans, that we decided ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 242 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4
EAN 9781784784744
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-295-5
EAN 9781784782955
High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 17,98 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-106-0
EAN 9781786631060
Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love. In The Amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres of our lives-work, knowledge, cities, politics- have fallen into the hands of box tickers, ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-190-9
EAN 9781786631909
A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing ...
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