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OverviewIn Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist 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. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In our digital, technologically focused era, capitalism has produced a becoming-artificial of humanity and the becoming-human of machines. This blurring of the natural and artificial presents a planetary existential threat in which contemporary society's goal is to precipitate the mutation of the human species into a condition that is at once plastic and synthetic. Mbembe argues that Afro-diasporic thought presents the only solution for breaking the totalizing logic of contemporary capitalism: repairing that which is broken, developing a new planetary consciousness, and reforming a community of humans in solidarity with all living things. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Achille MbembePublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781478025580ISBN 10: 1478025581 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 09 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 179Reviews"""In an argument both elegant and urgent, Achille Mbembe focuses our attention on the African continent, which is not only where the forms of domination and deprivation that increasingly affect the entire globe are most fully deployed but also where the forms of reparation necessary for a future world can be glimpsed.""--Michael Hardt, author of ""The Subversive Seventies""" Author InformationAchille 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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