The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste

John Asimakopoulos
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The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste

John Asimakopoulos
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“People have to engage in autonomous extra-institutional action to change social relations.” Asimakopoulos’s important concluding point captures the vital agenda which motivated the arguments of his new book. In accessible, straightforward and jargon-free prose, and elaborating upon Castoriadis’s, Foucault’s, Debord’s and Baudrillard’s insights, he raises fundamental and challenging questions for radical theory and praxis, and concurrently, he draws out the social and political implications of his analysis of the political economy of the society of the spectacle. Asimakopoulos’s passion and commitment are remarkable.
-- Christos Memos, author of Castoriadis and Critical Theory, Lecturer, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland

Busting out of Plato’s cave: the title of the introduction tells us what the book is about. How do we get out of here, out of this cave of lies and oppression? This is the only question worth asking. John Asimakopoulos explores the cave to its horrible depths in lively detail. And leaves us with the question of whether there is any way out other than stringing the rich up from the nearest lamppost.
-- John Holloway, author of many books, Professor, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.
  • Published date: Oct 17, 2019
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 232
  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004297043
  • Dimensions: 6.102362204" W x 0.748031496" L x 9.251968503" H
John Asimakopoulos, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. His publications include Revolt! (Transformative Studies Institute, 2011), The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012, with Eric Shannon and Anthony J. Nocella), Social Structures of Direct Democracy (Brill, 2014), and Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Temple University Press, 2018).

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