Main entry:

Wark, McKenzie, 1961- author.

Title & Author:

General intellects : twenty-one thinkers for the twenty-first century / McKenzie Wark.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso Books, 2017.
©2017

Description:

viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Amy Wendling : Marx's metaphysics and meatphysics -- Kojin Karatani : structure of the world -- Paolo Virno : grammars and multitudes -- Yann Moulier Boutang : cognitive capitalism -- Maurizio Lazzarato : machinic enslavement -- Franco "Bifo" Berardi : soul as commodity -- Angela McRobbie : crafting precarity -- Paul Gilroy : the persistence of race -- Slavoj Žižek : absolute recoil -- Jodi Dean : decline in symbolic efficiency -- Chantal Mouffe : democracy versus liberalism -- Wendy Brown : against neoliberalism -- Judith Butler : bodies on the line -- Hiroki Azuma : Otaku philosophy -- Paul B. Préciado : the pharmo-porno body politic -- Wendy Chun : programming politics -- Alexander Galloway : the intraface -- Timothy Morton : from OOO to P(OO) -- Quentin Meillassoux : the spectacle of the absolute -- Isabelle Stengers : Gaia intruding -- Donna Haraway : the inhuman comedy.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark's distinctive readings are appreciations, but are nonetheless critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work that endeavors to understand and also change the world. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781786631909 (alk. paper)
1786631903 (alk. paper)
9781786632838
1786632837
9781786631923
9781786631916

Subject:

Intellectuals History 21st century.
Philosophy History 21st century.
Intellectuels Histoire 21e siècle.
Philosophie Histoire 21e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
Intellectuals.
Philosophy.
History.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295941
Call No.: BIB 242304
Status: Available