Advancing Conversations
Srecko Horvat - Subversion!
Published on 24. February 2017
96 pages
978-1-78535-497-7 (ISBN)
Description
In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding into a new kind of fascism, Srecko Horvat's new book explores the concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in politics, technology and love. Drawing from his own experience of participating in different protest movements all around the world, working closely with WikiLeaks and being one of the protagonists of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Horvat resists the prevailing melancholy of the Left by offering new political imagination beyond traditional concepts. Instead of the tension between horizontal movements or vertical political parties, "Subversion" opts for a radical dialectics of both methods as the only way out of our current deadlock. If there is a crack in everything, the way to use the light that gets in is constructive subversion.
Reviews / Votes
Based on rich personal experience and participation in constructive subversion, along with wide reading from classics to the latest dreams of artificial intelligence, Horvat leads us on a whirlwind tour of the maladies and discontents of modern civilization and the many ways to right what is wrong and achieve a better future. -- Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor, University of Arizona History has only produced decency when good people infiltrated despotic institutions and succeeded in subverting them, often at a terrible cost to themselves. Horvat explains brilliantly subversion's creative potential, in juxtaposition to isolationism and escapism which are the establishment's best friends. -- Yanis Varoufakis, Economist, former Finance Minister of GreeceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
1,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-497-7 (9781785354977)
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Persons
Srecko Horvat is a philosopher and author of more than 10 books, most recently "The Radicality of Love" (Polity Press, 2015) and "What Does Europe Want?" (together with Slavoj Zizek, Columbia University Press, 2013). He is one of the founders of Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25)
Alfie Bown is co-editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books. He is author of 'Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism' (Zero, 2015), 'The PlayStation Dreamworld' (Polity, forthcoming) and 'In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Hegelianism and Comedy (SUNY, forthcoming). He also writes for many non-academic publications.
Alfie Bown is co-editor of the Hong Kong Review of Books. He is author of 'Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism' (Zero, 2015), 'The PlayStation Dreamworld' (Polity, forthcoming) and 'In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Hegelianism and Comedy (SUNY, forthcoming). He also writes for many non-academic publications.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Interview One: Politics
- Interview Two: Love
- Interview Three: Technology
- Interviewer's Reflections
- Endnotes
