General Intellects

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178663192X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Intellects written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing could, if read together, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark’s distinctive readings are appreciations, but are also critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work to understand and change the world. The thinkers included are Amy Wendling, Kojin Karatani, Paolo Virno, Yann Moulier Boutang, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy, Slavoj Žižek, Jodi Dean, Chantal Mouffe, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Azumo Hiroki, Paul B. Préciado, Wendy Chun, Timothy Morton, Quentin Meillassoux, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway.

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786631911
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Intellects written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing could, if read together, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark's distinctive readings are appreciations, but are also critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work to understand and change the world. The thinkers included are Amy Wendling, Kojin Karatani, Paolo Virno, Yann Moulier Boutang, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy, Slavoj Zizek, Jodi Dean, Chantal Mouffe, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Azumo Hiroki, Paul B. Preciado Wendy Chun, Timothy Morton, Quentin Meillassoux, Isabelle Stengers and Donna Haraway.

Author : Marianna Torgovnick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226808321
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gone Primitive written by Marianna Torgovnick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture),Gone Primitivewill engage not just specialists but anyone who has ever worn Native American jewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying an African mask. "A superb book; and--in a way that goes beyond what being good as a book usually implies--it is a kind of gift to its own culture, a guide to the perplexed. It is lucid, usually fair, laced with a certain feminist mockery and animated by some surprising sympathies."--Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "An impassioned exploration of the deep waters beneath Western primitivism. . . . Torgovnick's readings are deliberately, rewardingly provocative."--Scott L. Malcomson,Voice Literary Supplement

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735072
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensoria written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: design, environment, technology and introduces us to the thinking of nineteen major writers. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. The authors include: Sianne Ngai, Kodwo Eshun, Lisa Nakamura, Hito Steyerl, Yves Citton, Randy Martin, Jackie Wang, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Achille Mbembe, Deborah Danowich and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Eyal Weizman, Cory Doctorow, Benjamin Bratton, Tiziana Terranova, Keller Easterling, Jussi Parikka. Wark argues that we are too often told that expertise is obtained by specialisation. Sensoria connects the themes and arguments across intellectual silos. They explore the edges of disciplines to show how we might know the world: through the study of culture, the different notions of how we create such things, and the impact that the machines that we devise have had upon us. The book is a vital and timely introduction to the future both as a warning but also as a road map on how we might find our way out of the current crisis.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465031102
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectuals and Society written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. Even government leaders with disdain or contempt for intellectuals have had to bend to the climate of opinion shaped by those intellectuals. Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society -- and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views.

Author : Thomas Bender
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831523
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NEW YORK INTELLECT written by Thomas Bender and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.

Author : Thomas Cogswell Upham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology of Glazing Systems Embracing the Two Department Intellects and the Sensibilities written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James William Whitecross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches and Characters; Or, The Natural History of the Human Intellects written by James William Whitecross and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James William WHITECROSS (pseud. [i.e. Michał Wisznieski.])
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches and Characters: or the Natural History of the Human Intellects. By J. W. Whitecross written by James William WHITECROSS (pseud. [i.e. Michał Wisznieski.]) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Michael
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324966
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anxious Intellects written by John Michael and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA critical examination of the complex role of intellectuals in contemporary society, including the often contradictory definitions of such roles advocated by intellectuals themselves./div