Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of WarVerso, 17. jun. 2005 - 211 sider 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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... possible – to read a few pages from Rosa Luxemburg's great Junius Brochure or Randolph Bourne's The State . And our chosen examples speak immediately to what we hope Afflicted Powers can achieve . Both the Bourne PREFACE.
... possible – to read a few pages from Rosa Luxemburg's great Junius Brochure or Randolph Bourne's The State . And our chosen examples speak immediately to what we hope Afflicted Powers can achieve . Both the Bourne PREFACE.
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... possible is , in our view , an open question . The sheer ponderousness and hypocrisy of the pre - war buildup – and its constant visibility , the repeated set - pieces of lying and bullying to the world at large - mattered a great deal ...
... possible is , in our view , an open question . The sheer ponderousness and hypocrisy of the pre - war buildup – and its constant visibility , the repeated set - pieces of lying and bullying to the world at large - mattered a great deal ...
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... possible . But the reader will find us moving , all through the following pages , between stubborn expectancy and unbudgeable sense of doom . The book returns constantly to its epigraph's " If not " . That is to say , we are partisans ...
... possible . But the reader will find us moving , all through the following pages , between stubborn expectancy and unbudgeable sense of doom . The book returns constantly to its epigraph's " If not " . That is to say , we are partisans ...
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... possible oppositional identities we are constantly conjuring up - the peace movement , the multitude , the anti- capitalists ( what a moment it was when that identity was suddenly common currency again , pronounced with a sneer by ...
... possible oppositional identities we are constantly conjuring up - the peace movement , the multitude , the anti- capitalists ( what a moment it was when that identity was suddenly common currency again , pronounced with a sneer by ...
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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War Iain A. Boal,T.J. Clark,Joseph Matthews,Michael Watts Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2005 |
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War Iain A. Boal,T.J. Clark,Joseph Matthews,Michael Watts Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2005 |
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Side 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.
Side 8 - I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.