{"product_id":"9781032606583-ruins-of-capitalism-and-possibilism","title":"The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeyond Homo Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the logic of value extraction that characterises infrastructures capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity and the ruin that it has piled up, and argues instead for a logic of reproduction based on a real politics of care in the form of generalised social action. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the “workman” or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins – in the form of symbolic misery, the Anthropocene and a process of refeudalisation – that the homo faber has been piling up around himself as a result. In response to this dynamic, the author elaborates a social, cultural and political project – a “design hope” of both material and immaterial dimensions – that adopts the perspective of possibilism: an outlook that eschews ever greater social and environmental costs in the name of future “development” but seeks a logic of reproduction based on a real politics of care in the form of generalised social action.\u003cem\u003e The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism \u003c\/em\u003ewill therefore appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in critiques of capitalism and alternative futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57106771313014,"sku":"9781032606583","price":198.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39678688_0ef7754b-bd69-4921-a7fb-9443f03b43e8.jpg?v=1769656971","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032606583-ruins-of-capitalism-and-possibilism","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}