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Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations Into Globalization, Technology, Democracy - Couverture souple

Rockhill, Gabriel

 
9780822369769: Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations Into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822369761 ISBN 13 : 9780822369769
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2017

Synopsis

In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack economic security, digital access, and real political power, Rockhill interrogates the ways in which this grand narrative has emerged in the same historical, economic, and cultural context as the fervid expansion of neoliberalism. He also critiques the concurrent valorization of democracy, which is often used to justify U.S. military interventions on the behalf of capital. Developing an alternative account of the current conjuncture that acknowledges the plurality of lived experiences around the globe and in different social strata, he shifts the foundations upon which debates about the contemporary world can be staged. Rockhill's counter-history thereby offers a new grammar for historical narratives, creating space for the articulation of futures no longer engulfed in the perpetuation of the present.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gabriel Rockhill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and the author, editor, and translator of many books, including Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics, also published by Duke University Press, and Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822369761
ISBN 13 
9780822369769
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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