Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power
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Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power

Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons

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eBook - ePub

Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power

Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons

About this book

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself? In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of the public sphere, the corporatization of education, the privatization of creativity, and the power of finance capital in opposition to the power of the imagination and the growth of contemporary social movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Capitalism is not in crisis, it is the crisis, and moving beyond it is the only key to survival. Crucial reading for all those questioning the imposition of austerity and hoping for a fairer future beyond it.

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Information

Publisher
Zed Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781780329536
eBook ISBN
9781780329550
Edition
1
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About The Author
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Crises of the imagination
  8. One: Reimagining value
  9. Two: Publics, commons, occupations
  10. Three: The crisis of the financialized imagination
  11. Four: Within and beyond the edu-factory
  12. Five: The enclosure of history, the debt of the past, the commons of memory
  13. Six: The enclosure of creativity
  14. Seven: What is the radical imagination?
  15. Conclusion: Fatalism and its discontents
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index