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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Susan Buck-MorssPublish date:8/6/2019Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781608466795ISBN-10:1608466795UPC:9781608466795Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Political Process, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Conservatism & LiberalismSize:7.80 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCE05CSJ8K

Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it has owed its political life?

Socialism plus computer technology, citizen resistance plus a global agenda of concerns, revolutionary commitment to practices that are socially experimental and inclusive of difference--these are new forces being mobilized to make another future possible.

In a moving account that includes over 100 photos and images, many in color, , Revolution Today celebrates the new political subjects that are organizing thousands of grassroots movements to fight racial and gender violence, state-led terrorism, and capitalist exploitation of people and the planet worldwide. The twenty-first century has already witnessed unprecedented popular mobilizations. Unencumbered by old dogmas, mobilizations of opposition are not only happening, they are gaining support and developing a global consciousness in the process. They are themselves a chain of signifiers, creating solidarity across language, religion, ethnicity, gender, and every other difference.

Trans-local solidarities exist. They came first. The right-wing authoritarianism and anti-immigrant upsurge that has followed is a reaction against the amazing visual power of millions of citizens occupying public space in defiance of state power.

We cannot know how to act politically without seeing others act. This book provides photographic evidence of that fact, while making us aware of how much of the new revolutionary vernacular we already share.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781608466795ISBN-10:1608466795UPC:9781608466795Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Political Process, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Conservatism & LiberalismSize:7.80 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCE05CSJ8K
Susan Buck-Morss is a core faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center's Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Her trans-disciplinary work in political theory emerges out of a constellation of historical material, visual images, and contemporary events. Her previous books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History, which won the Frantz Fanon Prize Book Prize in 2011, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute.
Publisher: Haymarket Books

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