A major re-thinking of the concept of hegemony in international relations. On the basis of historical examples, Ian Clark presents an innovative scheme for rethinking hegemony, and applies it to the U.S. role in international organizations, in East Asia, and in the policy on cli…
"Makes a sharp distinction between primacy, denoting merely a form of material power, and hegemony, understood as a legitimate practice, and as giving rise to a form of social power. Adopting an English School approach, suggests hegemony be considered as one potential institutio…
Can international legitimacy operate even in a deformed balance of power, and when there is only one dominant state? Conventionally, hegemony has been perceived as a threat to international society. But how then is international order to be maintained, if this still requires a m…
Makes a sharp distinction between primacy, denoting merely a form of material power, and hegemony, understood as a legitimate practice, and as giving rise to a form of social power. Adopting an English School approach, suggests hegemony be considered as one potential institution…
Long description: Was können diskurs- und hegemonietheoretische Ansätze zur Kritik aktueller gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse beitragen? Der Band bietet vielfältige Antworten auf diese Frage. Die Beiträge erarbeiten verschiedene Herangehensweisen zur Analyse und Kritik komplexer …
Was können diskurs- und hegemonietheoretische Ansätze zur Kritik aktueller gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse beitragen? Der Band bietet vielfältige Antworten auf diese Frage. Die Beiträge erarbeiten verschiedene Herangehensweisen zur Analyse und Kritik komplexer und sich überlager…
The agony of power
by Lotringer, Sylvère, BAUDRILLARD, Jean, Hodges, Ames
fromSemiotext(e) intervention series
History that repeats itself turns to farce. But a farce that repeats itself ends up making a history.--from The Agony of PowerIn these previously unpublished manuscripts written just before his death in 2007, Jean Baudrillard takes a last crack at the bewildering situation curre…
Jean Baudrillard takes a crack at the bewildering situation facing us as we exit the system of 'domination' and enter a world of generalized 'hegemony' in which everyone becomes both hostage and accomplice of the global market.
The agony of power
by Lotringer, Sylvère, BAUDRILLARD, Jean
fromSemiotext(e) intervention series
The agony of power
by Lotringer, Sylvère, BAUDRILLARD, Jean, Hodges, Ames
fromSemiotext(e) intervention series
The agony of power
by Lotringer, Sylvère, BAUDRILLARD, Jean
fromSemiotext(e) intervention series
Power itself must be abolished--and not solely because of a refusal to be dominated, which is at the heart of all traditional struggles--but also, just as violently, in the refusal to dominate. Intelligence cannot, can never be in power because intelligence consists of this doub…