The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism - Beyond Homo Faber

This 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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Capitalism and infrastructures: A history of continuities and discontinuities
2. Between Globe and Planet: Renewing Kulturkritik in the ruins of capitalism
3. Possibilism: S
(Instead of) conclusions

About the author

Vando Borghi is Full Professor of the Sociology of Economic Processes, Work and Organization at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the co-editor of the Research Handbook on Public Sociology and Workers and the Global Informal Economy.

Product details

• Authors: Borghi Vando
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032606583
• ISBN: 978-1-032-60658-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism