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The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination de Steven Best

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination

Editat de Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella, II, Peter McLaren
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 dec 2011

Structura și metodologia acestui volum colectiv sunt riguros organizate pentru a expune ceea ce editorii numesc „complexul puterii”, o rețea globală de structuri corporatist-statale. Organizată în douăsprezece capitole dense, lucrarea progresează de la analiza economiei de război și a securității către sfere mai puțin evidente ale dominației, precum sistemul non-profit, educația superioară, agricultura și chiar sportul universitar. Notăm cu interes modul în care fiecare capitol funcționează ca o piesă dintr-un puzzle sistemic, demonstrând cum logica profitului capitalist și normele industrialiste de eficiență s-au infiltrat în toate aspectele vieții sociale.

Putem afirma că The Global Industrial Complex extinde în mod necesar cadrul propus de The Surveillance-Industrial Complex de Kirstie Ball, adăugând straturi noi de analiză asupra modului în care supravegherea și controlul nu sunt doar tehnologice, ci și structurale, afectând inclusiv sănătatea publică și transportul. Dacă lucrările anterioare se concentrau pe segmente izolate, acest volum oferă o viziune de ansamblu asupra interconectivității acestor sisteme. În contextul operei editorului Steven Best, acest titlu reprezintă o evoluție firească de la preocupările sale din Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?, trecând de la etica mișcărilor de eliberare a animalelor la o critică sistemică a „complexului industrial animalier” și a implicațiilor sale globale.

Credem că relevanța acestui text pentru curriculumul de sociologie și științe politice rezidă în capacitatea sa de a „numi” forțele invizibile care modelează macro-narațiunea secolului XXI. Ritmul este unul academic, sobru, susținut de cercetări documentate, oferind o corecție necesară discursurilor simpliste despre democrația globală și piața liberă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739136980
ISBN-10: 0739136984
Pagini: 315
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Această lectură este esențială pentru cercetătorii și studenții din domeniul științelor sociale care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele profunde ale puterii contemporane. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă integrată asupra modului în care instituții aparent divergente — de la universități la complexe medicale — colaborează sub o logică industrială comună. Este un instrument teoretic robust pentru oricine analizează crizele sistemice actuale și limitele democrației liberale.

Despre autor

Steven Best, Ph.D., este profesor asociat și catedră în cadrul Departamentului de Filozofie de la Universitatea Texas, El Paso. Este o figură marcantă în teoria socială și critica culturală, fiind recunoscut pentru lucrările sale despre drepturile animalelor și postmodernism, precum Postmodern Theory. Activitatea sa academică este dublată de un angajament civic profund, fiind citat frecvent pentru perspectivele sale asupra eticii și politicii radicale. În acest volum, Best își folosește expertiza filozofică pentru a coordona o analiză critică a sistemelor de dominație care definesc modernitatea târzie.

Descriere

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power-what the editors refer to as "the power complex"-that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional relationships of the power complex combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production, While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex-a grand power complex of complexes-thus poses one of the most formidable challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this emerging educational and political project.

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter One: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours
Chapter Two: The Corporate War Economy
Chapter Three: The Security Industrial Complex
Chapter Four: The Media-Military Industrial Complex
Chapter Five: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial Complex
Chaper Six: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Chapter Seven: Higher Education's Industrial Model
Chapter Eight: The Agricultural Industrial Complex
Chapter Nine: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial Complex
Chapter Ten: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex Goes Global
Chapter Eleven: College Sports: It's All About the Money!
Chapter Twelve: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation, and the Logic of Planetary Crisis
Afterword

Recenzii

This volume consists of high-quality essays addressing "the global industrial complex dominated by capitalist growth and profit imperatives, bureaucratic efficiency requirements, technological mass production of standardization, and hierarchical administration." A beginning essay by Noam Chomsky sets the stage. The following 11 essays treat topics such as the corporate war economy, the security industrial complex, and the linkage between the media and the military. Ward Churchill's outstanding chapter on the history of government repression is a high point of the volume. Surprisingly, Churchill, famous for his extensive analysis of government mistreatment of Native Americans, does not address this subject except for including the American Indian Movement in a list of organizations that have been targeted. Toby Miller's much shorter study also requires special notice. Miller shows how the government has been able to influence the media, which has been more than willing to produce material that serves propagandist purposes. Singling out these two contributions is not intended to diminish the importance of the other contributions. The essays are well written and devoid of unnecessary jargon. The book's structure is such that students will find it especially useful in terms of research in these subjects, and specialists will also profit from this collection. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
With capitalism battering the Third World and forcing the First World to lower its expectations of opportunity, human rights and a future, getting an unflinching, intelligent look at so-called recessions, superprofits and resistance is needed more than ever. Who better to illuminate politics, social movements and finance than this constellation of authors? None better can present matters of such urgency as accessibly or sharply.
The Global Industrial Complex makes an immense contribution to the literature by engaging the key thoughts and ideas of some of the most important, influential and outspoken public intellectuals of our time. In doing so the book provides not only a searing and devastating critique of contemporary 'capitalist' society, but also engages in a full frontal assault on the poverty of imagination evident in those who refuse to believe that there are real alternatives, and that active resistance is necessary to achieve them. It deserves to be read widely.
At a time when it is increasingly more difficult to find insightful and accessible work challenging the structural and ideological foundations of neoliberal economic savagery, The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination provides a key resource for such a task. This is a wide ranging and thoughtful book that not only critically analyzes the deepening and myriad forms of global market authoritarianism but also offers the theoretical tools to challenge it. A must read for anyone concerned about the promise of a real democracy and the economic, political, and cultural forces subverting it.
Human society is organized in a way that privileges a tiny minority at the expense of the vast majority of humanity and to the detriment of the entirety of the non-human world. With this collection, Best, Kahn, Nocella, and McLaren intervene in that and ask the question: 'Might things be done another way?' The answer, of course, is a resounding 'Yes!' Read this book and join us in creating a world free of the constraints placed on us by domination in all of its myriad forms!
This penetrating, insightful book written by a collection of the world's most prominent public intellectuals, is a skilled combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of what the contributors term the 'global industrial complex'. The authors combine scholarship with insight, erudition with moral passion as they critique the fundamental direction in which our world is moving financially, politically and economically. The conclusions are radical and profound. No activist, academic or student can afford to ignore their arguments.
In this book, leading American radical scholars provide important insights into interlocking networks of power under global capitalism. This fine collection of essays is a useful tool for those seeking to understand and alter the corporate structures that dominate our world.
An excellent, well-researched, and richly informed compendium on the nature of global exploitation and power, a nourishing corrective to the vapid evasions we are usually fed.