Achille Mbembe

Brutalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is to develop a new planetary consciousness and a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 236mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020875
• ISBN-10: 1478020873
• Artikelnr.: 68139388

Autorenporträt

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is author of Necropolitics and Critique of Black Reason and coeditor of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. Universal Domination  9
2. Fracturing  27
3. Animism and Viscerality  40
4. Virilism  58
5. Border-Bodies  78
6. Circulations  91
7. The Community of Captives  105
8. Potential Humanity and the Politics of the Living  125
Conclusion  147
Notes  151
Index  179