Main entry:

Cauter, Lieven de, 1959-

Title & Author:

Entropic empire : on the city of man in the age of disaster / Lieven de Cauter.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2012]

Description:

224 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Reflect ; #09

Notes:
Collection of texts published previously.
Includes bibliographical references.
The new world disorder. Foreword -- From Ground Zero to Tahrir Square : the post 9/11 era explained to children -- 1. The war on terror as planetary state of emergency -- The rise of rogue states : the construction of an enemy after the Cold War / with Patrick Deboosere -- The tyrant as meesiah : messianism and antinomianism in the neoconservative ideology -- 2. The city of man in the age of disaster -- The Mad Max phase of globalization -- The new spatial world (dis)order : the archipelago and the ubiquitous periphery / with Michael Dehaene -- 3. The return of the state of nature -- The beWILDerment of Pentheus / with Rudi Laermans -- Towards a phenomenology of civil war : Hobbes in Beirut -- The blackout -- The negation of the state of nature -- The return of the state of nature (synopsis) -- 4. Spaces of resistance -- The space of play : towards a general theory of heterotopia / with Michael Dehaene -- 'Everywhere Tahrir Square!' Reflections on the revolution in Egypt -- Conclusions -- The perverted pyramid or the logic of entropic empire -- Afterthoughts on posthistory.

Summary:

What with global warming, the war on terror, extreme political polarization, an unstoppable demographic explosion and migration, anarchy and chaos are becoming parts of our world system in hitherto unprecedented ways. What to call the planetary state of emergency we are now entering--a New World Disorder, perhaps, or Entropic Empire? In his latest book, the Dutch philosopher, art historian, writer and activist Lieven De Cauter suggests that an entropic empire is created by opposing forces or philosophical poles: the state of exception (tyranny) and the state of nature (anarchy). Entropic Empire: Considerations on the Planetary State of Emergency is part post-historical sci-fi scenario and part philosophical consideration on the eternal return of prehistory (the state of nature). For De Cauter, the simple but troubling question is: are we falling out of history?

ISBN:

9789462080287 (pbk.)
9462080283 (pbk.)

Subject:

World politics 21st century.
Sociology, Urban.
Globalization Environmental aspects.
Political science Philosophy.
History Philosophy.
Politique mondiale 21e siècle.
Sociologie urbaine.
Mondialisation Aspect de l'environnement.
urban sociology.
World politics.

Added entries:

Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; #09.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282896
Call No.: BIB 220763
Status: Available