Something is Missing: Things We don't Want to Know about Love, Sex and Life
- 114pages
- 4 heures de lecture
Bülent Somay Livres
Cet auteur explore les problèmes sociaux et culturels contemporains avec une position originale qui mêle analyse littéraire et pensée critique. Son œuvre se caractérise par un aperçu profond de la psyché humaine et des structures sociétales, employant souvent des éléments de science-fiction et de littérature utopique/dystopique. Les textes transcendent fréquemment les frontières du genre, tissant des réflexions philosophiques avec des observations perspicaces du monde moderne, incitant les lecteurs à contempler la nature de la réalité et l'avenir.
The End of Truth: Five Essays on The Demise of Neoliberalism
- 138pages
- 5 heures de lecture
What seems to be happening throughout the last decade is the gradual invalidation and dissolution of what we used to call 'Truth', and hence the disruption and gradual dissolution of what Foucault had called the existing hierarchical "Regime of Truth". What remains is not what Marx had hoped to be a more egalitarian regime in which "the educator{s themselves are also] educated", but rather a 'Humpty Dumpty Regime', where 'Truth' is whatever the Humpty-Dumpty in power wants it to be. This book argues that this is an unmediated outcome of the profound social, cultural and economic crisis of neoliberal capitalism, and its political corollary, the meteoric rise of populism and authoritarianism, not only in the so-called 'developing' countries, but throughout the entire globe. CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION: AFTER NEOLIBERALISM, THE FLOOD? CHAPTER 1. ON RADICAL AMBIGUITY CHAPTER 2. THE MIDAS BLESSING: TURNING COMMODITIES INTO GIFTS CHAPTER 3. THE END OF TRUTH AS WE KNOW IT - THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY DISCOURSE CHAPTER 4. THE GAME OF THRONES AS A FAILED ATTEMPT AT UNIVERSAL POPULISM CHAPTER 5. THE PSYCHOPOLITICS OF THE ENTITLED VICTIM - THE COMING OF AGE OF CONTEMPORARY POPULISM