Afflicted powers: capital and spetacle in a new age of war

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Sinopse

Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present...its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances. Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movements, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory peace, the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.

Participantes

Autor: Iain Boal | T. J. Clark | Joseph Matthews | Michael Watts

Autor

T. J. CLARK

T.J. Clark
O crítico e historiador britânico T.J. Clark (Bristol, 1943) possui uma habilidade incomum para combinar em seus livros a atenção aos detalhes pictóricos das obras analisadas com uma compreensão ao mesmo tempo ampla e incisiva do contexto histórico em que elas foram produzidas. Professor emérito da Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, Clark é autor de livros que influenciaram de maneira decisiva o entendimento atual do significado das transformações artísticas ocorridas entre os séculos XIX e XX. Entre seus livros mais importantes estão Imagem do povo: Gustave Courbet e a revolução de 1848 (1973) e A pintura da vida moderna (1985).