By J. D. Taylor
Negative Capitalism: Cynicism within the Neoliberal Era bargains a brand new conceptual framework for realizing the present monetary drawback. via a ranging sequence of analyses and views, it argues that cynicism has turn into culturally embedded within the united kingdom and US as an influence of disempowerment via neoliberal capitalism. but regardless of the deprivation and cave in of key social infrastructure like consultant democracy, welfare, workers' rights and equivalent entry to assets, there has up to now been no collective, potent and sustained overthrow of capitalism. Why is that this?
The book's crucial name is for brand new suggestions that resolve this narcissistic cynicism, embracing social democracy, constitutional rights, mass bankruptcies and animate sabotage. Kafka, Foucault, Ballard and de Sade are clashed with the X-Factor, ruinporn, London, and the art of Laura Oldfield Ford. Negative Capitalism's polemic is written to incite responses opposed to the cynical malaise of the neoliberal period.
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Pursuing symbolic power in the intellectual field My examination of relations between intellectuals and the state begins with a new characterization of intellectuals as pursuers of symbolic power in the intellectual field. Thus, the act of engaging in intellectual activities in a non-governmental space is regarded as a rational action for intellectuals in achieving their goal. This new characterization is necessary to our study because we should identify who the players are before we can understand the nature of any sociopolitical game.
Partially or fully non-governmental intellectual organizations have been established, and are playing an increasingly important role not only in reshaping the Chinese intellectual world but also in restructuring the relationship between the Party-state and society. These non-governmental intellectual organizations operate in a variety of forms, consisting of research institutes, consulting firms, educational agents, learned societies and the editorial boards of intellectually oriented magazines, journals and book series.