On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclea
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclea
The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions. At the same time, it showed the vulnerability of the world’s richest countries and the enormous potential of some
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 fr
Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the politica
The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. Chi
The first three volumes of the series, available for purchase as a set now!The Possible Futures Series gathers together leading social scientists to address the significance of the global economic cri
Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideologyNicolas Bourriaud is a leading theorist and art curator. Here he looks to the future of art as a place to tackle the ex
This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea of the “End of History” relate to one anot
This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea of the “End of History” relate to one anot
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage – from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave o
“If we do not understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present.”After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal gover
For Marc Auge, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our fears of the present. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it’s also whe
“If we do not understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present.”After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal gover
