Brutalism - Achille Mbembe

Brutalism

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Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2558-0 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is to develop a new planetary consciousness and a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.
In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In our digital, technologically focused era, capitalism has produced a becoming-artificial of humanity and the becoming-human of machines. This blurring of the natural and artificial presents a planetary existential threat in which contemporary society’s goal is to precipitate the mutation of the human species into a condition that is at once plastic and synthetic. Mbembe argues that Afro-diasporic thought presents the only solution for breaking the totalizing logic of contemporary capitalism: repairing that which is broken, developing a new planetary consciousness, and reforming a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is author of Necropolitics and Critique of Black Reason and coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, all also published by Duke University Press.

Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. Universal Domination  9
2. Fracturing  27
3. Animism and Viscerality  40
4. Virilism  58
5. Border-Bodies  78
6. Circulations  91
7. The Community of Captives  105
8. Potential Humanity and the Politics of the Living  125
Conclusion  147
Notes  151
Index  179

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Theory in Forms
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 295 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-4780-2558-1 / 1478025581
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-2558-0 / 9781478025580
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