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The Age of Violence
"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the 'radicalization of' Islam'? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe? For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states' legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they s...
Les enfants du chaos
Tel un trou noir dans l'univers, l'incendie qui ravage le Moyen-Orient, et la France depuis 2015, au nom du " djihad " menace-t-il d'aspirer les désillusions politiques et les révoltes désespérées de la génération qui vient ? La " radicalisation de l'islam " est-elle seule à l'origine de ce drame et des actions terroristes qui surviennent dans le monde entier ? Pour répondre à ces questions, cet essai grave et incisif propose de déplacer et d'élargir les cadres d'explication habituels. " Il n'y a que les martyrs pour être sans pitié ni crainte et, croyez-moi, le jour du triomphe des martyrs, c'est l'incendie universel. " Cette sombre prophétie de Jacques Lacan en 1959 décrira...
Nous autres, nous-mêmes
La mondialisation, étant un changement radical de repères culturels, bouleverse tous les cadres collectifs dans lesquels l'humanité s'est pensée depuis plus de deux siècles. Le pire danger, selon A. Bertho, réside en nous-mêmes dans la tentation d'une identité collective assiégée. L'auteur évoque une autre voie : celle de la construction de nouvelles identités collectives ouvertes et tolérantes.
Surveillance Schools
Focusing on the phenomena of the Surveillance School, Taylor examines the increased presence of surveillance technologies and practices which identify, verify, categorise and track pupils, exploring the impact that invasive and continual monitoring is having upon school children.
Future on Fire
Coming in October, 2022. Climate change is already affecting millions of people. Governments talk about taking action to limit global heating to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but the greenhouse gas emissions allowed by their policies have the Earth on track to heating far more than that by the end of the century - a level of heating that will have truly disastrous consequences. Visionary plans for how to slash emissions and make society better at the same time abound, including various Green New Deals. But how can we make the changes that are so urgently needed? Future on Fire argues that a just transition from fossil fuels and other drivers of climate change will not be del...
Commonwealth
When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for th...
Assembly
Each year an eruption of "leaderless" social movements leaves external observers and activists perplexed. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change? In Assembly, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri analyze potential paths for creating a more democratic and just society.
How the World Swung to the Right
An examination of the reactionary, individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift in global politics to the right, implemented both by the right and the establishment left. Systemic, euphemized, insidious and structural violence has increased. It is now objectively measurable by the gulf in revenues, by subjective malaise, or by the menace of ecological apocalypse, and also by their constant exacerbation. —from How the World Swung to the Right Despite a few zones of active resistance—the alter-globalization movement, the Chiapas uprisings, the Arab springs, and the recent resistance to racialized police brutality and environmental and genocidal warfare in the United States—the last half...
