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To live and think like pigs : the incitement of envy and boredom in market democracies / Gilles Châtelet ; translated by Robin Mackay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Châtelet, Gilles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Economic conditions--1995-.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Falmouth, England ; New York, New York : Urbanomic : Sequence, 2014.
- Summary:
- 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, Châtelet 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.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Alain Badiou
- Preface
- The palace's night of red and gold: on the entry of France into the tertiary society
- Chaos as imposture, self-regulation as festive neoconservatism
- Hobbes's Robinson-particles: political arithmetic and mercantile empiricism
- The average man as statistical degradation of the ordinary man
- Democracy as political market, or: From market democracy to thermocracy
- Market democracy will be fluid or will not be at all: fluid nomads and viscous losers
- Robinsons on wheels and petronomads
- When good sense turns nasty: the Fordism of hate and the resentment industry
- The 'Béassine Memorial Lectures' on urban populism
- The new French exception: cultural upstarts
- The dissident Knights of Professor Walras, or Economic droit de seigneur
- Towards the end or the beginning of history: middle class yoghurt-maker or heroism of the anyone?
- Glossary for the reader uninitiated in political economy.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780983216988
- 0983216983
- 9781913029296
- 1913029298
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