Theory of Power: Marx, Foucault, Neo-Zapatismo

ISBN-13: 9781433187339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 138 str.

Robin Myers; Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas

Opis

In this translation by Robin Myers, Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas interrogates the nature of power(s) in relation to global anti-systemic movements, considering the most effective ways to confront and overcome the present's intersecting, oppressive systems of power by turning back to Marx, Foucault, and neo-Zapatismo for a theory of power.

Spis treści

Introduction: Power vs. (Counter)Power - What Power Cannot (Be) - Marx's Teaching(s): Social Power(s), Human Power(s) - (More) Marxist Teachings: The Power(s) of Money Capital, the Impotence of Political and State Power(s) - The Teachings of Michel Foucault: Macropower(s), Micropower(s), Punitive Power(s), Disciplinary Power(s) - The Teaching(s) of Neo- Zapatismo: Counter- power(s), Resistance(s), Autonomy(s) -In(Conclusion).

O autorze

Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas has a Ph.D. in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a post-doctoral degree in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is a full-time researcher at the UNAM's Institute for Social Research.

Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and literary translator. Recent book-length translations include The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza, Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos, and Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel. She writes a monthly column on translation for Palette Poetry.