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After Globalization
AFTER GLOBALIZATION “ Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs . Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dare to go beyond the standard thinking of the day and query the very heart of mobile capital and its impact on daily life. Their alternative vision breathes new life into our sense of evolution and inevitability. ”
Toby Miller, author of Globalization and Sport and Global Hollywood “ Cazdyn and Szeman begin with the idea that the current economic crisis has historicized globalization, turning it from a process that looked as inevitable as, say, global warming still does, into an episode in the history of hence the possibility not just of more globalization but of an “after globalization.” And hence also, they argue, the renewed possibility of an “after capitalism.” In powerful critiques of what they describe as the common sense of capital today they sketch out the terms in which changes more radical than substituting generous and honest leaders for the greedy and dishonest ones we’ve currently got might begin to be imagined. ”
Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal the inability to think “an after” to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, nation, future, history, capitalism, and common sense) that challenge the false promises that sustain this time limit, After Globalization examines four popular thinkers (Richard Florida, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Naomi Klein) and considers how their work is dulled by these promises. Cazdyn and Szeman then speak to students from around the globe who are both unconvinced and uninterested in these promises and who understand the world very differently than the way it is popularly represented. After Globalization argues that a true capacity to think an after to globalization is the very beginning of politics today.
Toby Miller, author of Globalization and Sport and Global Hollywood “ Cazdyn and Szeman begin with the idea that the current economic crisis has historicized globalization, turning it from a process that looked as inevitable as, say, global warming still does, into an episode in the history of hence the possibility not just of more globalization but of an “after globalization.” And hence also, they argue, the renewed possibility of an “after capitalism.” In powerful critiques of what they describe as the common sense of capital today they sketch out the terms in which changes more radical than substituting generous and honest leaders for the greedy and dishonest ones we’ve currently got might begin to be imagined. ”
Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal the inability to think “an after” to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, nation, future, history, capitalism, and common sense) that challenge the false promises that sustain this time limit, After Globalization examines four popular thinkers (Richard Florida, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Naomi Klein) and considers how their work is dulled by these promises. Cazdyn and Szeman then speak to students from around the globe who are both unconvinced and uninterested in these promises and who understand the world very differently than the way it is popularly represented. After Globalization argues that a true capacity to think an after to globalization is the very beginning of politics today.
264 pages, Hardcover
First published February 25, 2011
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November 30, 2021
كتاب مهم يضاف للمكتبة العربية وان عابه بعضا من الغموض واعتقد ان هذا يرجع للترجمه وليس إلا
واعتقد ان الفصل الاول هو اهم الفصول بالكتاب فالفصل الثاني وان كان يحوي بعضا من تدليلات المؤلفين عبر فحص ونقد عده كتب ونظريات لشخصيات بارزة الا انه لم يصل بالفكرة الخاصه التي يمتحور حولها الكتاب كذلك شاب الفصل الثالث والخاص بترجمه تلك الافكار عبر عرض اراء لطلاب بعيدين كل البعد عن مواجهه العولمة عبر بلدانهم وخاصه طلاب من ألمانيا والمجر وكرواتيا وكان حريا بهم الاستعاضه عن ذلك بسرد اراء لطلاب جامعيين من الشرق الاوسط الا انه في مجمله يعد عملا راسخا في اتجاه ما بعد العولمة ودراساتها
واعتقد ان الفصل الاول هو اهم الفصول بالكتاب فالفصل الثاني وان كان يحوي بعضا من تدليلات المؤلفين عبر فحص ونقد عده كتب ونظريات لشخصيات بارزة الا انه لم يصل بالفكرة الخاصه التي يمتحور حولها الكتاب كذلك شاب الفصل الثالث والخاص بترجمه تلك الافكار عبر عرض اراء لطلاب بعيدين كل البعد عن مواجهه العولمة عبر بلدانهم وخاصه طلاب من ألمانيا والمجر وكرواتيا وكان حريا بهم الاستعاضه عن ذلك بسرد اراء لطلاب جامعيين من الشرق الاوسط الا انه في مجمله يعد عملا راسخا في اتجاه ما بعد العولمة ودراساتها
November 25, 2023
At first I thought I was really going to enjoy this book and learn a lot about globalization, and now I feel like these guys are just extremists.
I tried to finish it, but I can't get through it. The writers go on sounding very confusing and pretentious, and their arguments sound more like rants. I would not recommend this book.
I tried to finish it, but I can't get through it. The writers go on sounding very confusing and pretentious, and their arguments sound more like rants. I would not recommend this book.
May 31, 2012
Call no. JZ 1318 C39 2011
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