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Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle
This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual. The modern intellectual--who had once been associated with humanism and enlightenment—has in our day been replaced by media stars, talking heads, and technical experts. At issue is the ongoing crisis of democracy, under the aegis of the société du spectacle and its vast networks of politically-induced idiocy, industrially-produced biocide, and militarily-provoked genocide. Spectacle fills the resulting moral and intellectual vacuum with electronic technologies of control, punishment, and destruction. This postmodern tyranny reduces intelligence to mechanistic, positivist, and grammatological models of inquiry, while increasing the segmentation, fragmentation, and dissolution of human existence. The apotheosis of the spectacle explains the intellectual void that lies at the heart of our postmodern decadence; it also accounts for the need to recuperate the humanist values of enlightenment promoted by the modern intellectual tradition.
El reino de la belleza
En El reino de la belleza, Eduardo Subirats habla sobre aquello que define al arte moderno y su genealogia del desde el factor humano y espiritual. Segun el autor, es la misma naturaleza humana la que exige un acercamiento a lo espiritual, ya que es en lo espiritual donde se encuentra lo bello de lo humano. Y las exigencias espirituales, humanas, dependen de la civilizacion en la que el hombre vive.
Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle: Humanism in an Age of Anti-humanism
"Intellectuals in a Society of Spectacle outlines the history, psychology, and logic by which Western civilization is realizing all the nightmares of Orwell, in which war will indeed be peace, and slavery indeed be freedom. The spectacle, which we enact by pretending to watch, is an epochal sacrifice of knowledge to power. Conceived over decades in universities in the collapse of Western triumphalism, the spectacle of culture war is a sadomasochistic Tarantella of self-denying humanists and omnipotent technocrats in a charnel-house of voluntary servitude." -Paul Fenn, co-author of Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) This book reveals the sense in which our postmo...
Spanien und die Sepharden
Die Iberische Halbinsel, schrieb kürzlich ein Autor, war vom 8. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert ein welthistorisch einmaliger 'Ort der Begegnung': Nur in Spanien lebten Mauren, Juden und Christen fast ein Jahrtausend relativ friedlich zusammen, ihre kulturellen Leistungen waren im damaligen Europa unübertroffen und beeinflussten nachhaltig die Renaissance. Nach der Vertreibung der Juden aus Spanien (1492) trugen sie zur kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Blüte ihrer neuen Heimatorte entscheidend bei (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Saloniki etc.). In Spanien 'vergaß' man dagegen die jüdische Geschichte. Erst im 19. Jahrhundert begann eine allmähliche Wiederentdeckung dieser verschütteten Kulturtraditionen, die seit 1992, dem fünfhundertsten Jahrestag der Vertreibung, nun auch offiziell zum nationalen Erbe zählen. Die hier versammelten Beiträge bieten einen fundierten Einblick in die Geschichte und Gegenwart der vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Spanien und den Sepharden.
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Spanish Visual Culture
Examining the impact of contemporary visual culture in Spain, this text includes essays on the growth of the Internet, the influence of television and the international reach of cinema.
A existência sitiada
Este livro relata a década compreendida entre a Primeira Guerra do Iraque e o lançamento midiático da guerra global. Eduardo Subiratis busca responder a três perguntas - o que é possível aprender com a cultura do espetáculo; o que se pode lembrar a partir das ruínas das memórias culturais e o que se pode esperar diante da dominação nuclear e biológica do planeta.
Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico
The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uraguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly referred to as the "dirty wars." Thousands of leftists, students, intellectuals, workers, peasants, labor leaders, and innocent civilians were harassed, arrested, tortured, raped, murdered, or 'disappeared.' Many studies have been done about this phenomenon in the other areas of Latin America, but st...
Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction
This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism of providential enlightenment, and the examination of positive dialectics. The spectacle, in this case, is the apotheosis of the culture industries, a total inversion of reality and of our existences. Providential enlightenment is not only a critique of the failure of enlightenment, but of the mutilation of hi...
