General Intellects - Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century

✍ Scribed by Mckenzie Wark

Publisher: Verso Books
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future
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 that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing could, if read together, 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 also critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work to understand and change the world.
The thinkers included are Amy Wendling, Kojin Karatani, Yann Moulier Boutang, Paolo Virno, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Slavoj Žižek, Jodi Dean, Wendy Brown, Wendy Chun, Alexander...

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