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Like a Thief in Broad Daylight : Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

By:

Zizek, Slavoj

Material type: Text

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TextPublication details: UK Allen Lane 2018Description: 223 : PagesISBN:

9780241364291

Subject(s):

In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissipation of class communities and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labour, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before-and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely. But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph--because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our ever eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all

DDC classification:

303.3 ZIZ.L

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of History Processing Center	Dept. of History	303.3 ZIZ.L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		HIS13573

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