| To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies Contributor(s): Chatelet, Gilles (Author), Badiou, Alain (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0983216967 ISBN-13: 9780983216964 Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | Political Economy - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions |
| Dewey: 330.944 |
| LCCN: 2014943400 |
| Series: Urbanomic/Sequence Press |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.5" W x 6.8" (0.35 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A startlingly prescient treatise on the cybernetic automation of society and a burlesque satire of its middle-class celebrants. An uproarious portrait of the evils of the market and a technical manual for its innermost ideological workings, this is the story of how the perverted legacy of liberalism sought to knead Marx's "free peasant" into a statistical "average man"--pliant raw material for the sausage-machine of postmodernity. Combining the incandescent wrath of the betrayed comrade with the acute discrimination of the mathematician-physicist, Ch telet scrutinizes the pseudoscientific alibis employed to naturalize "market democracy" and the "triple alliance" between politics, economics, and cybernetics. A bestseller in France on its publication in 1998, this book remains crucial reading for any future politics that wants to replace individualism with individuation and libertarianism with liberation, this new translation constitutes a major contribution to contemporary debate on neoliberalism, economics, and capitalist subjectivation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chatelet, Gilles: - Gilles Châtelet (1944-1999) was a mathematician and philosopher and a leading member of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR). He was Professor at the University of Paris VIII, and Program Director at the Collège Internationale de philosophie.MacKay, Robin: - Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.Badiou, Alain: - Alain Badiou is a French philosopher. He has published a number of major philosophical works, including The Immanence of Truths, the final installment of his Being and Event trilogy, released in French in 2018. |