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Communication and Capitalism – A Critical Theory
Communication and Capitalism outlines foundations of a critical theory of communication. Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines a communicative materialism that is a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. … Continue reading
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Our Obsolete Market Mentality – Civilization Must Find a New Thought Pattern
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. To attempt to apply economic determinism to all human societies is little short of fantastic. Nothing is more obvious to … Continue reading
The Power of Market Fundamentalism – Karl Polanyi’s Critique
What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred … Continue reading
Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century: Market Economy as a Political Project
This volume revisits Karl Polanyi‘s analysis of the institutional separation of politics and the economy in the context of the nineteenth century market society to argue that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a “political project” realized … Continue reading
Deleuzian capitalism
Contemporary capitalism is in effect, if not in intent, Deleuzian. As a network of networks, it is rhizomatic, flexible, chaosmotic, evolving, expanding. In the negativist spirit that characterizes the work of the Frankfurt School, this article shows via an analysis … Continue reading
Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and … Continue reading
Business as usual: the roots of the global financial meltdown
Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from … Continue reading
The Enigma of Capital and the Crisis of Capitalism
For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Has the time come to move beyond it? Using his unrivalled knowledge of the subject, David Harvey lays bare the … Continue reading
A user’s guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia – Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari
A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes … Continue reading
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