Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of WarVerso, 17 հնս, 2005 թ. - 211 էջ Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present’s lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. The world careers backward into forms of ideological and geo-political combat that call to mind the Scramble for Africa, and the Wars of Religion. But this brute return of the past is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Capital is on the move again. In the Middle East and elsewhere it is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation and enclosure. Now, however, it is obliged to do so in unprecedented circumstances. Never before has imperialist victory or defeat depended so much on a struggle for hegemony in the world of images; never before has the dominant world power been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire and enclosure, what Retort terms military neo-liberalism, is confronted not only by various forms of radical Islam but by a new kind of vanguard armed with the toolkit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink certain key aspects of the current global struggle within this overall perspective, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory peace, the US–Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror. |
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... turn to empire is con- fronted by a variety of movements , including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics . This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle , and to provide some ...
... turn to empire is con- fronted by a variety of movements , including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics . This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle , and to provide some ...
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... turning the two last words of the phrase outward , and having them apply to the present powers that be . For part of the twenty - first - century situation is indeed the affliction of the previously invulnerable . The American empire ...
... turning the two last words of the phrase outward , and having them apply to the present powers that be . For part of the twenty - first - century situation is indeed the affliction of the previously invulnerable . The American empire ...
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... turn its spasmodic " We are Many " into a form ( a practice ) of politics . This leads to the question of style - meaning imagined community of readers . For the advent of the multitude in the run - up to war did very much more than ...
... turn its spasmodic " We are Many " into a form ( a practice ) of politics . This leads to the question of style - meaning imagined community of readers . For the advent of the multitude in the run - up to war did very much more than ...
Էջ 12
... turning the victims of bombing from their doors . These newly freed men became sellers of themselves only after they had been robbed of all their own means of production , and all the guaran- tees of existence afforded by the old ...
... turning the victims of bombing from their doors . These newly freed men became sellers of themselves only after they had been robbed of all their own means of production , and all the guaran- tees of existence afforded by the old ...
Էջ 13
... turn out that the term we are least willing to abandon in the process is the one we have lived with most skeptically for the longest time . The Left , the Left ... - We each have our memories of the kind of work this word was called on ...
... turn out that the term we are least willing to abandon in the process is the one we have lived with most skeptically for the longest time . The Left , the Left ... - We each have our memories of the kind of work this word was called on ...
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THE STATE THE SPECTACLE AND SEPTEMBER 11 | 16 |
BLOOD FOR OIL? | 38 |
PERMANENT WAR | 78 |
THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION | 108 |
REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM | 132 |
MODERNITY AND TERROR | 171 |
ENDNOTE | 197 |
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Էջ 12 - But, on the other hand, these new freedmen became sellers of themselves only after they had been robbed of all their own means of production, and of all the guarantees of existence afforded by the old feudal arrangements. And the history of this, their expropriation, is written in the annals of mankind in letters of blood and fire.
Էջ 8 - I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.