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Brutalism
Engelsk Hardback
Brutalism
Engelsk Hardback

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In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In our digital, technologically focused era, capitalism has produced a becoming-artificial of humanity and the becoming-human of machines. This blurring of the natural and artificial presents a planetary existential threat in which contemporary society’s goal is to precipitate the mutation of the human species into a condition that is at once plastic and synthetic. Mbembe argues that Afro-diasporic thought presents the only solution for breaking the totalizing logic of contemporary capitalism: repairing that which is broken, developing a new planetary consciousness, and reforming a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781478020875
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478020873
Udg. Dato:
9 jan 2024
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
238mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
9 jan 2024
Forfatter(e):
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