Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical
social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character
amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. A
cousin of Marcuse's one-dimensional man, they are a figure so
compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased
to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense. This is
Peter Fleming's brilliant analysis of the psychological and
institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist
democracies. The scene is set in no-dimensional man's natural habitats
– the modern office, the corporate suite, the government bureau and
the corporate university. In these treacherous climes Fleming reveals
the dark power relations currently shaping the post-industrial system.
This deep dive into the post-industrial pit explains the failure of
capitalism in terms of its most contagious symptoms, including
micro-jobs, multinational spread, shadow banking, financial predation,
the working poor, and government by algorithm. Beset by every malaise
of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak
performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, no-dimensional man
is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness
characterizing capitalism today.
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Critical Theory in Unwanted Times
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350441903
Publisert
2025
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Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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