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Power at the End of the Economy

Massumi Brian
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780822358381
Publisert
2014-12-29
Utgiver
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Duke University Press
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227 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Massumi Brian

Biographical note

Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of several books, including What Animals Teach Us about Politics and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, both also published by Duke University Press.

Power at the End of the Economy

Massumi Brian
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Massumi Brian
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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“Behavioral economists who study the psychology of decision making should engage this study of potential, virtual, and kinetic emotions, given that emotions are what move people to action.  Going beyond Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's <i>Commonwealth</i> and Timothy Wilson’s <i>Strangers to Ourselve</i>s, this is a book for those interested in cultural theory. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.”

- K. Tölölyan, Choice

“... powerful and convincing in its theoretically innovative, productive intertwining of political philosophy, cognitive psychology and Luhmann’s systems theory.”

- Hannah Richter, Constructivist Foundations

"Massumi’s interventions regarding affect, neoliberalism, and politics are undoubtedly original, and provocative. The book pierces to the heart of the neoliberalism’s most basic premises about rationality, self-interest, and economic behavior." 

- Anita Chari, Theory & Event

Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in complex interactions between the rational and the emotional. Offering a new theory of political economy that refuses the liberal prioritization of individual choice, Massumi emphasizes the means through which an individual’s affective tendencies resonate with those of others on infra-individual and transindividual levels. This nonconscious dimension of social and political events plays out in ways that defy the traditional equation between affect and the irrational. Massumi uses the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement as examples to show how transformative action that exceeds self-interest takes place. Drawing from David Hume, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhmann and the field of nonconsciousness studies, Massumi urges a rethinking of the relationship between rational choice and affect, arguing for a reassessment of the role of sympathy in political and economic affairs.
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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.
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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
Les mer
“Behavioral economists who study the psychology of decision making should engage this study of potential, virtual, and kinetic emotions, given that emotions are what move people to action.  Going beyond Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Commonwealth and Timothy Wilson’s Strangers to Ourselves, this is a book for those interested in cultural theory. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.”
Les mer
"Brian Massumi infuses affect, incipient intuitions, dividuation, the detonation of trust, the event, and variations of intensity into shaky neoliberal categories of the individual, choice, interest, and system rationality, exploding the assemblage from the inside. Such a strategy also enables him to probe contagious sites of counterpower often neglected by critics of neoliberalism. A bracing book that exceeds the practices it subverts."
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“Behavioral economists who study the psychology of decision making should engage this study of potential, virtual, and kinetic emotions, given that emotions are what move people to action.  Going beyond Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's <i>Commonwealth</i> and Timothy Wilson’s <i>Strangers to Ourselve</i>s, this is a book for those interested in cultural theory. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.”

- K. Tölölyan, Choice

“... powerful and convincing in its theoretically innovative, productive intertwining of political philosophy, cognitive psychology and Luhmann’s systems theory.”

- Hannah Richter, Constructivist Foundations

"Massumi’s interventions regarding affect, neoliberalism, and politics are undoubtedly original, and provocative. The book pierces to the heart of the neoliberalism’s most basic premises about rationality, self-interest, and economic behavior." 

- Anita Chari, Theory & Event

Rational self-interest is often seen as being at the heart of liberal economic theory. In The Power at the End of the Economy Brian Massumi provides an alternative explanation, arguing that neoliberalism is grounded in complex interactions between the rational and the emotional. Offering a new theory of political economy that refuses the liberal prioritization of individual choice, Massumi emphasizes the means through which an individual’s affective tendencies resonate with those of others on infra-individual and transindividual levels. This nonconscious dimension of social and political events plays out in ways that defy the traditional equation between affect and the irrational. Massumi uses the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement as examples to show how transformative action that exceeds self-interest takes place. Drawing from David Hume, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhmann and the field of nonconsciousness studies, Massumi urges a rethinking of the relationship between rational choice and affect, arguing for a reassessment of the role of sympathy in political and economic affairs.
Les mer
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.
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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
Les mer
“Behavioral economists who study the psychology of decision making should engage this study of potential, virtual, and kinetic emotions, given that emotions are what move people to action.  Going beyond Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Commonwealth and Timothy Wilson’s Strangers to Ourselves, this is a book for those interested in cultural theory. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.”
Les mer
"Brian Massumi infuses affect, incipient intuitions, dividuation, the detonation of trust, the event, and variations of intensity into shaky neoliberal categories of the individual, choice, interest, and system rationality, exploding the assemblage from the inside. Such a strategy also enables him to probe contagious sites of counterpower often neglected by critics of neoliberalism. A bracing book that exceeds the practices it subverts."
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822358381
Publisert
2014-12-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Massumi Brian

Biographical note

Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of several books, including What Animals Teach Us about Politics and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, both also published by Duke University Press.

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