Praktyka Teoretyczna, No. 4: Wokół Rzeczy-pospolitej (2011) [Polish]
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Nowy numer Praktyki Teoretycznej poświęcony dyskusji nad ostatnią książką Michaela Hardta i Antonia Negriego – 216 stron poważnej i wciągającej lektury.
Wśród jego autorek i autorów znaleźli się m.in. Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, David Harvey, Ewa Majewska, Joanna Bednarek, Mateusz Janik, Gigi Roggero, Anna Curcio, Gerald Raunig, Michał Kozłowski i Sandro Mezzadra.
Editors of the issue: Piotr Juskowiak, Krystian Szadkowski, Maciej Szlinder
Publisher: Międzywydziałowa „Pracownia Pytań Granicznych” UAM, Poznań, December 2011
ISSN: 2081-8130
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216 pages
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Jodi Dean: Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · capitalism, communicative capitalism, democracy, left, neoliberalism, politics

“Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton presidency. She argues that the left’s ability to develop and defend a collective vision of equality and solidarity has been undermined by the ascendance of “communicative capitalism,” a constellation of consumerism, the privileging of the self over group interests, and the embrace of the language of victimization. As Dean explains, communicative capitalism is enabled and exacerbated by the Web and other networked communications media, which reduce political energies to the registration of opinion and the transmission of feelings. The result is a psychotic politics where certainty displaces credibility and the circulation of intense feeling trumps the exchange of reason.
Dean’s critique ranges from her argument that the term democracy has become a meaningless cipher invoked by the left and right alike to an analysis of the fantasy of free trade underlying neoliberalism, and from an examination of new theories of sovereignty advanced by politicians and left academics to a look at the changing meanings of “evil” in the speeches of U.S. presidents since the mid-twentieth century. She emphasizes the futility of a politics enacted by individuals determined not to offend anyone, and she examines questions of truth, knowledge, and power in relation to 9/11 conspiracy theories. Dean insists that any reestablishment of a vital and purposeful left politics will require shedding the mantle of victimization, confronting the marriage of neoliberalism and democracy, and mobilizing different terms to represent political strategies and goals.”
Publisher Duke University Press, 2009
ISBN 0822345056, 9780822345053
217 pages
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Comment (0)Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization journal (2001-2012)
Filed under journal | Tags: · activism, affect, commons, critique, education, finance, immaterial labor, labour, left, multitude, organization, political economy, politics, self-organization, theory, work


Ephemera is the free journal for the discussion of theoretical and political perspectives on all aspects of organization; supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
Editorial collective: Anna-Maria Murtola, Armin Beverungen, Bent Meier Sørensen, Casper Hoedemaekers, Chris Land, Kate Kenny, Lena Olaison, Martyna Sliwa, Michael Pedersen, Nick Butler, Peter Svensson, Sara Louise Muhr, Stephen Dunne, Stevphen Shukaitis, Sverre Spoelstra
ISSN 2052-1499
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vol 12, no 3 (aug 2012) — Professions at the margins
vol 12, no 1-2 (may 2012) — The atmosphere business
vol 11, no 4 (nov 2011) — Work, play and boredom
vol 11, no 3 (aug 2011) — The effect of affect
vol 11, no 2 (may 2011) — Governing work through self-management
vol 11, no 1 (feb 2011) — Authenticity
vol 10, no 3/4 (nov 2010) — Digital labour: Workers, authors, citizens
vol 10, no 2 (may 2010) — The state of things
vol 10, no 1 (feb 2010) — The excellent institution
vol 9, no 4 (nov 2009) — The university of finance
vol 9, no 3 (aug 2009) — Throwing shoes…
vol 9, no 2 (may 2009) — Project management behind the façade
vol 9, no 1 (feb 2009) — ‘No we can’t’: Crisis as chance
vol 8, no 4 (nov 2008) — Practical Criticism and the Social Sciences of Management
vol 8, no 3 (aug 2008) — University, Failed
vol 8, no 2 (may 2008) — Alternatively
vol 8, no 1 (feb 2008) — Symptoms of Organization
vol 7, no 4 (nov 2007) — Always Elsewhere
vol 7, no 3 (aug 2007) — Local Solidarity
vol 7, no 2 (may 2007) — Marginal Competencies
vol 7, no 1 (feb 2007) — Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored
vol 6, no 4 (nov 2006) — Experience, Movement and the Creation of New Political Forms
vol 6, no 3 (aug 2006) — América Latina / Latin America
vol 6, no 2 (may 2006) — Organizing between a rock and a hard place
vol 6, no 1 (feb 2006) — In Times, in and as Global Conflict
vol 5, no X (dec 2005) — Web of Capturing the Moving Mind
vol 5, no 4 (nov 2005) — Inscribing Organized Resistance
vol 5, no 3 (aug 2005) — Unwrapped: Let’s Get Out of Here
vol 5, no 2 (may 2005) — The Organisation and Politics of Social Forums
vol 5, no 1 (feb 2005) — Writing:Labour
vol 4, no 4 (nov 2004) — Paid in Full? Writing Beyond the Pale
vol 4, no 3 (aug 2004) — Theory of the Multitude
vol 4, no 2 (may 2004) — No Critique
vol 4, no 1 (feb 2004) — Handle with Care
vol 3, no 4 (nov 2003) — silent sounds
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vol 2, no 4 (nov 2002) — Hors d’oeuvre
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