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For a new critique of political economy
- Title
- For a new critique of political economy / Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Daniel Ross.
- Author
- Stiegler, Bernard.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2010.
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- Description
- v, 154 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy - a rethinking of Marx's project in the very different conditions of twenty-first century capitalism. Stiegler argues that today the proletarian must be reconceptualized as the economic agent whose knowledge and memory are confiscated by machines. This new sense of the term proletarian is best understood by reference to Plato's critique of exteriorized memory. By bringing together Plato and Marx, Stiegler can show how a generalized proletarianization now encompasses not only the muscular system, as Marx saw it, but also the nervous system of the so-called creative workers in the information industries. The proletarians of the former are deprived of their practical know-how, whereas the latter are shorn of their theoretical practice, and both suffer from a confiscation of the very possibility of a genuine art of living. But the mechanisms at work in this new and accentuated form of proletarianization are the very mechanisms that may spur a reversal of the process. Such a reversal would imply a crucial distinction between one's life work, originating in otium (leisure devoted to the techniques of the self), and the job, consisting in a negotium (the negotiation and calculation, increasingly restricted to short-term expectations), leading to the necessity of a new conception of economic value. -- Publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Pour une nouvelle critique de l'économie politique. English
- Alternative Title
- Pour une nouvelle critique de l'économie politique.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published in French as Pour une nouvelle critique de l'économie politique, 2009.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Contents
- I. For a new critique of political economy. 1. Heads buried in the sand : a warning --- 2. Introduction --- 3. Pharmacology of the proletariat --- 4.To work ---- II. Pharmacology of capital and economy of contribution.
- Call Number
- JBD 12-260
- ISBN
- 9780745648033
- 0745648037
- 9780745648040 (pbk.)
- 0745648045 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 551435856
- Author
- Stiegler, Bernard.
- Title
- For a new critique of political economy / Bernard Stiegler ; translated by Daniel Ross.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2010.
- Edition
- English ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Indexed Term
- Contemporary Economic Crisis Philosophical Essay
- Research Call Number
- JBD 12-260