General Intellects: Twenty-Five Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century

Synopsis

What Happened To The Public Intellectuals That Used To Challenge And Inform Us? Who Is The Sartre Or De Beauvoir Of The Internet Age? General Intellects Argues We No Longer Have Such Singular Figures, But There Are, Instead, General Intellects Whose Writing Could, If Read Collectively, Explain Our Times. Covering Topics Such As Culture, Politics, Work, Technology, And The Anthropocene, Each Chapter Is A Concise Account Of An Individual Thinker, Providing Useful Context And Connections To The Work Of The Others. Mckenzie Wark’s Distinctive Readings Are Appreciations, But Are Nonetheless Critical Of How Neoliberal Universities Militate Against Cooperative Intellectual Work That Endeavors To Understand And Also Change The World. -- Amy Wendling : Marx's Metaphysics And Meatphysics -- Kojin Karatani : Structure Of The World -- Paolo Virno : Grammars And Multitudes -- Yann Moulier Boutang : Cognitive Capitalism -- Maurizio Lazzarato : Machinic Enslavement -- Franco Bifo Berardi : Soul As Commodity -- Angela Mcrobbie : Crafting Precarity -- Paul Gilroy : The Persistence Of Race -- Slavoj Žižek : Absolute Recoil -- Jodi Dean : Decline In Symbolic Efficiency -- Chantal Mouffe : Democracy Versus Liberalism -- Wendy Brown : Against Neoliberalism -- Judith Butler : Bodies On The Line -- Hiroki Azuma : Otaku Philosophy -- Paul B. Préciado : The Pharmo-porno Body Politic -- Wendy Chun : Programming Politics -- Alexander Galloway : The Intraface -- Timothy Morton : From Ooo To P(oo) -- Quentin Meillassoux : The Spectacle Of The Absolute -- Isabelle Stengers : Gaia Intruding -- Donna Haraway : The Inhuman Comedy. Mckenzie Wark. Includes Bibliographical References.