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Between Catastrophe and Revolution Essays in Honor of Mike Davis 1st Edition Daniel Betrand Monk Michael Sorkin

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Author(s): Daniel Betrand Monk Michael Sorkin

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 3.46 MB

Year: 2021

Language: english

SKU: EB-35094914 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Government & Politics, Society Tags: 1682192776, 9781682192771, Catastrophe, Daniel Betrand Monk Michael Sorkin, Mike Davis, Revolution

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Between Catastrophe and Revolution Essays in Honor of Mike Davis 1st Edition Daniel Betrand Monk Michael Sorkin – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN: 1682192776, 9781682192771

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• ISBN 10:1682192776
• ISBN 13:9781682192771
• Author(s): Daniel Betrand Monk Michael Sorkin

It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom “every day is judgment day” (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what Davis―in typical wry fashion―once referred to as the field of “disaster studies.” Collectively, they show how our “disaster imaginary” has been rendered inadequate by the existing order’s ability to feed off and coopt our resistance to it.

Contemporary mass protests are now subsumed as instances of an established, profitable politics of rage. Geopolitical conflict poses not as a threat to hegemonic power but rather serves the interests of a global market which capitalizes on lucrative, permanent war. Climate change itself, if it was ever thought to be a universalizing phenomenon, is now treated as an extensive market opportunity by global risk insurance conglomerates and predatory lenders who bet against any rescue of the planet.

Such catastrophic developments resist the language we use to describe and deconstruct them. The contributions to this volume seek to reimagine our understanding of disaster, and, following the example of Davis himself, to refuse outdated models of political transcendence as vigorously as they reject narratives of resignation.

Table contents:

Front Cover
Back Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: “How About Just Plain ‘Catastrophe and Revolution’?”
Introduction: A Dialectic of Catastrophe and Revolution
A Sorrowful Storm: Between Penitence and Anthropolitics in the Anthropocene
Planetary Events, Climate Catastrophes, and the Limits of the Human Sciences
A Late Neoliberal Holocaust
Settler Colonial Urbanism: From Waawiyaataanong to Detroit at Little Caesars Arena
Steel Bloom: Lineages and Landmarks of Borderland Violence
Where Did the Future Go? Notes on the Fantasies and Strategies of the Hyper-Right from the United States to Brazil
Eruptions of Rage
A Theory of the Middle East: Oil for Insecurity, Permanent War, and the Political Economy of Late Imperial America
Maximalist Elites and the Ecological Burden of Southern History
Aviation, Hijackings, and the Eclipse of the “American Century” in the Middle East
Lineages of Infrastructural Power: Los Angeles as a Logistical Nightmare
Death Cults of East Anglia
The Calculus of Climate Change
Gated Ecologies
Othering the Mall
Contributors

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