Max Haiven

Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power (eBook, PDF)

Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself?

In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of the public sphere, the corporatization of education, the privatization of creativity, and the power of finance capital in opposition to the power of the imagination and the growth of contemporary social movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Capitalism is not in crisis, it is the crisis, and moving beyond it is the only key to survival.

Crucial reading for all those questioning the imposition of austerity and hoping for a fairer future beyond it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780329543
• Artikelnr.: 40730894

Autorenporträt

Max Haiven is an assistant professor in the division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. He is the author of many academic articles on themes including the financialization of society and culture, contemporary social movements, the radical imagination, and cultural and social theory. He is the co-author of The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Zed Books 2014) and author of Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). More information can be found at maxhaiven.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Crises of the Imagination
1. Reimagining Value
2. Publics, Commons, Occupations
3. The Crisis of the Financialized Imagination
4. Within and Beyond the Edu-factory
5. The Enclosure of History, the Debt of the Past, the Commons of Memory
6. The Enclosure of Creativity
7. What is the Radical Imagination?
Conclusion: Fatalism and its Discontents