Wang Hui: The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · china, confucianism, economy, modernity, neoliberalism, new left, politics
“A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”
Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China’s leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the roots of China’s social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the current state of mass depoliticization.
Arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang Hui calls for alternatives to both its capitalist trajectory and its authoritarian past.
From the May Fourth Movement to Tiananmen Square, The End of the Revolution offers a broad discussion of Chinese intellectual history and society, in the hope of forging a new path for China’s future.”
Publisher Verso, London, 2011
ISBN 1844673790, 9781844673797
274 pages
Review: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Los Angeles Times, 2010).
PDF (updated on 2021-1-25)
Comments (2)Marc Augé: Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1992–) [EN, ES, CR, IT, HU, BR-PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, ethnology, modernity, non-place, sociology, supermodernity
“A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space.
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls “non-space” results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Augé uses the concept of “supermodernity” to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity.”
Originally published in French as Non-lieux: Introduction á une anthropologie de la surmodenité, Editions de Seuil, 1992
English edition
Translated by John Howe
Publisher Verso, 1995
ISBN 1859840515, 9781859840511
122 pages
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (English, trans. John Howe, 1995, updated on 2014-3-20)
Los no lugares: Espacios del anonimato: Una antropología de la sobremodernidad (Spanish, trans. Margarita Mizraji, 2000)
Nemjesta: Uvod u moguću antropologiju supermoderniteta (Croatian, trans. Vlatka Valentić, 2002)
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 2nd ed. (English, trans. John Howe, 2008, added on 2020-8-2)
Nonluoghi. Introduzione a una antropologia della surmodernità (Italian, trans. Dominique Rolland, 2009, added on 2020-8-2)
Nem-helyek: Bevezetés a szürmodernitás antropológiájába (Hungarian, trans. Agoston Faber, 2012, added on 2020-8-2)
Não-lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da supermodernidade (BR-Portuguese, trans. Maria Lucia Pereira, 9th ed., 2012, 50 MB, added on 2020-8-2)
Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Modernity (2000-) [EN, PT, CZ, ES, PL, RU]
Filed under book | Tags: · community, labour, liquid modernity, modernity, sociology, space, time, work
In this book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a ‘heavy’ and ‘solid’, hardware-focused modernity to a ‘light’ and ‘liquid’, software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history.
This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life – emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community – and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning.
Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman’s two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.
Publisher Polity Press
ISBN 074562409X, 9780745624099
240 pages
Liquid Modernity (English, 2000)
Modernidade líquida (Portuguese, trans. Plínio Dentzien, 2001)
Tekutá modernita (Czech, trans. Blumfeld s.m., 2002)
Modernidad líquida (Spanish, trans. Mirta Rosenberg with Jaime Arrambide Squirru, 2003)
Płynna nowoczesność (Polish, trans. Tomasz Kunz, 2006)
Текучая современность (Russian, trans. С. А. Комаров, 2008)