Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism: III (Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism: A Special Issue of Public Culture: Millennial Quartet III) - Softcover

Comaroff, John L.; Comaroff, Jean

9780822364801: Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism: III (Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism: A Special Issue of Public Culture: Millennial Quartet III)

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ISBN 10: 0822364808 ISBN 13: 9780822364801

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2000

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The third instalment of the "Millennial Quartet", "Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism" proposes that we are living in an age of revolution in which the dominant forms of capitalist political economy are undergoing major transformations. The intention of this issue is to generate - in as iconoclastic manner as possible - an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits millennial capitalism as a historical formation. From the perspectives of scholarly disciplines ranging from anthropology to public policy, these essays explore questions concerning how the triumph of the "free market" obscures the rising tides of violence and cultures of exclusion and how the relationship between production and consumption has changed. The proliferation of economies aimed at the accumulation of wealth without work is examined as well as how neoliberal capitalism encourages a world of invisible class distinction, of moral panics and social impossibilities, and of bitter generational antagonisms and gender conflicts. Premised on the fact that there is more to global capitalism than economics, this special issue shows that global capitalism raises urgent problems of human understanding and social action. Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology, also at the University of Chicago.

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“In an extrarodinary introduction the editors of this book set out to interrogate the features of capitalism at the millennium, not only its technical but also its messianic and magical manifestations. This makes for an unusual treatment of familiar subjects. . . . [M]ust reading for anyone concerned with transnational processes.”—Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City

“The savvy success of ‘postmodernism,’ that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times.”—Homi K. Bhabha, University of Chicago

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"The savvy success of 'postmodernism, ' that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. "Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism "steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times."--Homi K. Bhabha, University of Chicago

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