This manifesto argues that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of the forces which structure our lives.
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Is the notion of society obsolete? Aiming to answer this question, this book considers various critiques of the concept, including the arguments of: Neo-liberals, Postmodernists, Globalization theorists, and Evolutionary psychologists. It argues that we do still need the concept…
Going to the heart of contemporary social and political debate, William Outhwaite questions whether society is relevant in the 21st century, or whether it is now obsolete. He concludes that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of theforces which structure ou…
Transmodernidad
by Rodríguez Magda, Rosa María
fromPensamiento crítico, pensamiento utópico
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Being fabulous as the climate changes -- Still life with genetically modified tomato -- Store and tell -- The mortal life of HeLa -- Oncoscripts -- Dispatch from the palliative present
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? In this inno…
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? In this inno…
Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to u…
Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to u…
The end of the Cold War announced a new world order. Liberal democracy prevailed, ideological conflict abated, and world politics set off for the promised land of a secular, cosmopolitan, market-friendly end of history. Or so it seemed. 30 years later, this unipolar worldview- p…
"The end of the Cold War announced a new world order. Liberal democracy prevailed, ideological conflict abated, and world politics set off for the promised land of a secular, cosmopolitan, market-friendly end of history. Or so it seemed. Thirty years later, this unipolar worldvi…
A tale of Western liberal hubris and our failure to escape from history.
