A cultural diagnosis, intellectual history, and survival manual, this provocative and urgent book traces some of the major tendencies of Western modernity—including the drive to conquer nature by the use of instrumental reason—and shows how they culminate in today’s “information capitalism,” where data-hungry platforms monetize (engineered) culture wars and people’s desires. Moving from Renaissance humanism and early Protestant metaphysics to contemporary profit-driven imperialisms (in physical and digital spaces), the book unpacks the blind spots of mainstream ideologies, pointing to both their emancipatory and highly oppressive dimensions. All mainstream ideological “alternatives” are exposed as profitable spectacles, keeping the majority of the population in the position of “happy slaves,” who mistake their manufactured desires for freedom—while scrolling, shopping, and staying obedient.
The book also sketches an exit route: through a combination of both scholarly and activist approaches, it outlines ways to break the capitalist spell, rebuild communities, and reclaim human freedom and more genuine forms of democracy.
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Politics of (Un)Freedom
Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Instrumental Reason and Information Capitalism
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Politics of (Un)Freedom
Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Instrumental Reason and Information Capitalism
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Something Is Rotten in This (Post) Modernity of Ours
- I. Today’s Ideology, for (Not So) Happy Slaves
- II. Zombie Apocalypse
- III. Atheory and the Danger of (Opaque) Clarity
- IV. Being (In)Human in a “Society of Devils”
- V. (Un)Freedom and the (Liberal) Depoliticization of Politics
- VI. Zombieland as Disneyland
- VII. Imagining the “West”
- VIII. Surviving (in) the Global Skyscraper
- Bibliography
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