General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century

Resumen del libro

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future
What 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 could, if read together, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark's distinctive readings are appreciations, but are also critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work to understand and change the world.

The thinkers included are Amy Wendling, Kojin Karatani, Yann Moulier Boutang, Paolo Virno, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco Bifo' Berardi, Slavoj i ek, Jodi Dean, Wendy Brown, Wendy Chun, Alexander Galloway, Azumo Hiroki, Timothy Morton, Isabelle Stengers, Quentin Meillassoux, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy, Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, Béatriz Préciado and Donna Haraway.

Biografía del autor

McKenzie Wark (Newcastle, 1961) es escritora y profesora de Estudios Culturales y Medios de Comunicación en el Eugene Lang College de la New School for Social Research de Nueva York. En sus ensayos ha rastreado la huella cultural y política que la Internacional Situacionista (IS) ha dejado en el imaginario colectivo y ha atendido a las metamorfosis sociales y culturales que han provocado las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en nuestras vidas. Sus títulos disponibles en español son los ensayos Un manifiesto hacker, La playa bajo la calle, El capitalismo ha muerto y las autoficciones Vaquera invertida y Raving.