For Marc Auge, best-selling author of "Non-Places," the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Auge finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
For Marc Auge, best-selling author of "Non-Places," the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to...
For Marc Auge, best-selling author of "Non-Places," the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Auge finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
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For Marc Auge, best-selling author of "Non-Places," the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to...
Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control. In "State of Insecurity," Isabell Lorey explores...
Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society ...
Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control. In "State of Insecurity," Isabell Lorey explores...
Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society ...