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In the Mind But Not From There
Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social, political, and cultural complexities of our contemporary moment. In doing so, this volume brings together noted contemporary artists, literary critics, curators, historians, and social theorists who connect the concept of Real Abstraction with contemporary cultural production. Theoretical and artistic contributions from Benjamin Noy...
Counterrevolution
A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wages. As the brief reprieve of coronavirus spending made clear, no departure from government austerity will be tolerated without a corresponding act of penance. Yet we misunderstand the scope of neoliberal public finance if we assume austerity to be its sole setting. Beyond the zero-sum game of...
달러의 횡포
베이징의 패권 도전에 직면해 워싱턴은 글로벌 정치 경제 체스판의 완전한 재편에 착수했다. 우크라이나 전쟁과 워싱턴의 글로벌 공급망 재편은 탈세계화, 경제가 정치 논리에 자리를 양보하는 지정학 우위 시대에 접어들고 있음을 보여 준다. 미 연준의 급격한 이자율 인상도 이러한 구도 속에서 이해해야 한다. 헤게모니 유지를 위한 미 달러의 횡포가 다시 본격화되고 있음을 지난 반세기의 미 금융 패권주의의 숨겨진 이야기를 통해 확인하게 될 것이다. 특히 신자유주의 세계화의 거대한 물결 속에서 중동 지역은 지정학적 질서가 급격히 재편되었으며 아시아는 외환 위기를 겪었던 20세기 후반은 지금의 글로벌 정치 경제를 이해하는 중요한 실마리들을 제공해 줄 수 있다.
Alt-finance
A clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianism
Alt-Finance
Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind Britain leaving the European Union, a flagship institution of neoliberalism. Beyond this counterintuitive move, what was really happening and why? Alt-Finance examines a new authoritarian turn in financialised democracies, focusing on the City of London, revealing a dangerous alternative political project in the making. In a clash with traditional finance, the new behemoths of financial capital - hedge funds, private equity firms and real est...
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Peak Pharma
This book argues that we have reached the 'peak' of a particular model for pharmaceutical production - the neoliberal value model that has been in place since the early 1980s. 'Peak' designates a state where a value model's contradictions become exacerbated to a point where the system cannot but change: it is a point where an industry's products become too expensive and its resources exhausted, and where the coalitions that have held up that particular value model disintegrate. In other words, it is the point where an industry collapses under its own greed, of having captured too much value for itself, leaving too little to the other actors in the system. Peak Pharma argues that the neoliber...
Accumulating Capital Today
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century. It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession. Bringing together the work of scholars who study the social fabric of capitalist accumulation, Accumulating Capital Today goes beyond disciplinary frontiers to describe how capital is accumulating in a world threatened by social and environmental collapse. This book heralds the emergence of "accumulation studies" and will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, politics, political economy, geography and economics.
Urban-Rural Interfaces
What is the urban–rural interface? Is it a visual phenomenon, a place where country gives way to neighborhoods and shopping areas in a startling way? Is it a simple factor of population density? There is nothing simple about the urban–rural interface—editors David Laband, Graeme Lockaby, and Wayne Zipperer present the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary complexities at play. Organized into three sections on changing ecosystems, changing human dimensions, and the dynamic integration of human and natural systems, this book is a must read for anyone who works in the real world, where natural and human systems are joined. This is the new sustainability science, an emerging discipline that integrates social and economic values with the physical, chemical, and ecological functions of ecosystems. The goal is optimal management, since our human impact is often significant and far-reaching in both space and time.
Handbook of Special Education
The purpose of the Handbook of Special Education is to help profile and bring greater clarity to the already sprawling and continuously expanding field of special education. To ensure consistency across the volume, chapter authors review and integrate existing research, identify strengths and weaknesses, note gaps in the literature, and discuss implications for practice and future research. The second edition has been fully updated throughout to take into account recent changes to federal laws as well as the most current academic research, and an entirely new section has been added on research methods in special education.
