Revolutions in reverse / David Graeber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graeber, David, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions.

Anti-globalization movement.

Capitalism--Social aspects--Forecasting.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Political aspects--Forecasting.

Capitalism--Political aspects.

Forecasting.

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 pages)

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Other Title:

Subtitle on cover: Essays on politics, violence, art, and imagination

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Minor Compositions, [2011]

Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it's impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can't imagine an alternative that wouldn't not be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it?

In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places.

At a moment when the old assumption about politics and power have been irrefutably broken the only real choice is to begin again: to create a new language, a new common sense, about what people basically are and what it is reasonable for them to expect from the world, and from each other. In this volume Graeber draws from the realms of politics, art, and the imagination to start this conversation and to suggest that that the task might not be nearly so daunting as we'd be given to imagine. Book jacket.

Contents:

The shock of victory

Hope in common

Revolution in reverse

Army of altruists

The sadness of post-workerism

Against kamikaze capitalism.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Graeber, David. Revolutions in reverse.

ISBN:

9781570273131

1570273138

Publisher Number:

99988909621

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.