Brian Massumi

The Power at the End of the Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

In his latest book, the influential critic Brian Massumi offers a new theory of political economy that demonstrates how emotional, affective and nonconscious decisions work together with rational self-interest in the shaping of neoliberalism. Massumi’s analysis shows the potential for a new anti-capitalist politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358244
• ISBN-10: 0822358247
• Artikelnr.: 40920429

Autorenporträt

Brian Massumi

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Inmost End 1
The Market in Wonderland 2
System Distrust 6
Collapse of the Affective Wave Packet 10
2. A Doing Done through Me 19
Deliberation without Attention 21
Jamming Rational Choice 24
The Primes of Life 26
Toward a Politics of Dividualism 32
Double Involuntary / Autonomy of Decision 36
Fielding the Event 43
Tribunals of Reason 48
Finessing the Event 53
3. Beyond Self-Interest 57
Your Life or My Little Finger? 58
Contiguity, Most Distant 65
The Argument from Intensity 68
The Other Sign of Passion 73
A Freedom of the Event 79
The Flashpoint of Sympathy 84
Toward an Anticapitalist Art of the Event 93
Supplements
I. The Affective Tasks of Reason 97
II. Keywords for Affect 103
Notes 113
Works Cited 121
Index 127