Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded

ISBN-13: 9780367894412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Agnes Horvath

Opis

This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, a process that transforms entities by altering their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, it demonstrates both the widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics and the acceleration of their deployment.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Necromancy;  2. The fluxed matrix;  3. Replicators in compositions;  4. Charis vs. the automaton;  5. The raised power;  6. Catacombing sensuals;  7. The multiplicative automatism;  Conclusion

O autorze

Agnes Horvath is the chief and founding editor of International Political Anthropology. She is the author of Modernism and Charisma, the co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary, Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking, and The Political Sociology and Anthropology of the Evil: Tricksterology, and co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality, Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations, Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion, and Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery.