Meanderings Through the Politics of Everyday Life

The key point of the book, ideally as well as practically, is to realize that there may be something potentially significant, and politically significant, in the very act of making such connections, of understanding the supposedly trite and trivial world of the everyday against a broader political backcloth.

List of contents

Introduction / 1. Seminar on Critique / 2. The Conceptual Significance of Everyday Life / 3. Retail Politics / 4. Shifting Registers / 5. After the Aesthetic Seduction Comes the Philosophical Guilt / 6. The Old Problem of Recuperation / 7. The Logic of an Absent Present / 8. The Jargon of Indebtedness / 9. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Consumer Capitalism / 10. A Joke Explained...as a Jag; Or, Credo Quia Absurdum / 11. Entrepreneurial Rationality / 12. Digital Capitalism / 13. 'You're Fired!' / 14. The Absurdity of Working to Rule / 15. Zombie Workers and the Rise and Rise of the Futurist-Sophists / 16. Political Theory, Events and Their Rippling Effects / 17. The Drama of Philosophical Imperialism / 18. Resisting the Philosopher's Jargon / Conclusion

About the author

Robert Porter is Director of the Centre for Media Research, Ulster University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Porter
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786615558
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-555-8
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 218 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Series: Experiments/On the Political
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory