Cazdyn / Szeman After Globalization

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9646-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman arguethat contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatalflaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. Afterestablishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future,capitalism, nation, and common sense) that challenge the falsepromises that sustain this time-limit, After Globalizationexamines four popular thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florida,Paul Krugman and Naomi Klein) and how their work is dulled by thesepromises. Cazdyn and Szeman then speak to students from around theglobe who are both unconvinced and uninterested in these promisesand who understand the world very differently than the way it ispopularly represented.

After Globalization argues that a true capacity to thinkan after to globalization is the very beginning of politicstoday.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cazdyn, Eric

Szeman, Imre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Prixecis: The Argument 1
Part I: The Afterlife of Globalization
a. Nothing Can Save Us 5
b. From Globalization to Anti-Americanism 9
c. From Anti-Americanism Back to Globalization 15
d. "I face the World as it is": On Obama 29
e. Of and After: Two Narratives of the Global 34
f. Seven Theses after Globalization 44
g. Something's Missing 57
Part II: The Limits of Liberalism
a. After Globalization, or, Liberalism after Neoliberalism 69
b. Neoliberals Dressed in Black: Richard Florida 77
c. The Anecdotal American: Thomas Friedman 100
d. Confidence Game: Paul Krugman 114
e. The Non-Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein 134
f. The Limits of Hollywood: Michael Clayton 152
Part III: The Global Generation
a. Next Generation 171
b. From Anti-Americanism to Globalization 173
c. A Map of the World 179
d. Biogeographies 207
e. Can't Get There from Here 218
Conclusion: "Oh, Don't Ask Why!" 225
Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Cazdyn is Professor of Cultural and CriticalTheory, Psychoanalysis, and East Asian Studies at the University ofToronto. He is author of The Already Dead: The New Time ofPolitics, Culture, and Illness (2012) and TheFlash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan (2003),and editor of Trespasses: Selected Writings of Masao Miyoshi(2011).
Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studiesat the University of Alberta. He is co-editor of CulturalTheory: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), author of Zonesof Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation(2003) and co-author of Popular Culture: A User?s Guide(3rd. ed. 2013).