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The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste de John Asimakopoulos

The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, cartea 141

Autor John Asimakopoulos
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2019
In The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste, John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the society of the spectacle, a philosophical concept developed by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Using the analytical tools of social science, while historicizing, Asimakopoulos reveals that all societies in every epoch have been and continue to be caste systems legitimized by various ideologies. He concludes there is no such thing as capitalism (or socialism)—only a caste system hidden behind capitalist ideology. Key features of the book include its broad interdisciplinary-nonsectarian approach with quantitative and qualitative data. The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste is well written and clear, making it accessible to the general public.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004297043
ISBN-10: 9004297049
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Cuprins

Foreword
Greg Palast
Acknowledgements
Illustrations

Introduction: Busting out of Plato’s Cave

1 The Symbolic Institution of Society
1 Symbolic Interactionism
2 Interaction Exchange and Collective Norms
3 Critical Theory and Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism
3.1Cornelius Castoriadis
3.2Michel Foucault
3.3Guy Debord
3.4Jean Baudrillard
4 Beyond Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism

2The Spectacle
1 Audience Segmentation
1.1Sociocultural and Spatial Segmentation
1.2Educational Segmentation
1.3Economic Segmentation
1.4Political Segmentation
2 Total Propaganda
3 Symbolic Institutions
3.1Educational Institutions
3.2Economic Institutions
3.3Political Institutions
3.4Legal Institutions
3.5Protective Institutions

3 It’s All Spectacular
1 Spectacular History
2 Postmodern Spectacles
2.1Doubleplusgood: Spectacular Capitalism
2.2Plusgood: Spectacular Socialism/Communism
3 Spectacular Class
4 The Quantum Mechanics of Value and Capital
4.1The Relativity of Value
4.2There Is No Spoon: Capital(ism)

4 The Monetization of Everything
1 Life, Flesh, and Death
2 Food, Water, and the Environment
3 Cities, Nations, and Culture
4 Time and Space
5 The Global Spectacle
5.1Finance
5.2Trade
5.3Segmented Labor

5 The Structure of Postmodern Caste
1 Social Order
1.1Privileges and Disabilities Based on Ascription
1.2Who Pays the Piper?
1.3Extreme Structural Inequality
2 Caste Groups
2.1Ruling Caste
2.2Nobles
2.3Privileged Labor
2.4Required Labor
2.5Precarious Labor
2.6Institutional Slaves
3 Legitimizing Twenty-First-Century Serfdom
3.1Mr. Baptist Has Been Too Harsh on the Slavers

Conclusion: Bakunin’s Conundrum

Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“People have to engage in autonomous extra-institutional action to change social relations.” Asimakopoulos’s important concluding point captures the vital agenda which motivated the arguments of his new book. In accessible, straightforward and jargon-free prose, and elaborating upon Castoriadis’s, Foucault’s, Debord’s and Baudrillard’s insights, he raises fundamental and challenging questions for radical theory and praxis, and concurrently, he draws out the social and political implications of his analysis of the political economy of the society of the spectacle. Asimakopoulos’s passion and commitment are remarkable.
-- Christos Memos, author of Castoriadis and Critical Theory, Lecturer, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland

Busting out of Plato’s cave: the title of the introduction tells us what the book is about. How do we get out of here, out of this cave of lies and oppression? This is the only question worth asking. John Asimakopoulos explores the cave to its horrible depths in lively detail. And leaves us with the question of whether there is any way out other than stringing the rich up from the nearest lamppost.
-- John Holloway, author of many books, Professor, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

Notă biografică

John Asimakopoulos, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. His publications include Revolt! (Transformative Studies Institute, 2011), The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012, with Eric Shannon and Anthony J. Nocella), Social Structures of Direct Democracy (Brill, 2014), and Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Temple University Press, 2018).