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Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism in the Era of COVID-19 (Chronicles of Liquid War) Paperback – January 20, 2021
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Escobar's first book in the US, Globalistan (Nimble, 2007), brilliantly anticipated the future of a disintegrating international system in an era of "Liquid" (hybrid) war. These were followed by Red Zone Blues (2007); Obama does Globalistan (2009); Empire of Chaos (2014); and 2030 (2015), all by Nimble Books.
From the Introduction:
The Raging Twenties started with a murder.
That lethality was amplified when a virus cannibalized virtually the whole planet, devouring time.
As time has been standing still—or imploded—ever since, we cannot even begin to imagine the consequences of the anthropological rupture caused by SARS-CoV-2.
A new world starts when language—either a living entity, or a virus from outer space (William Burroughs)—starts metastasizing new words.
A basket of concepts already stand out. Circuit breaker. Biosecurity. Negative feedback loops. State of exception. Necropolitics. New Brutalism. Hybrid Neofascism. And, as we shall see, New Viral Paradigm.
The proliferation of new words—and concepts—paradoxically developed in parallel with the slow fade out of The Word.Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe summed it all up: “This end of the word, this definitive triumph of the gesture and artificial organs over the word, the fact that the history of the word ends under our eyes, that for me is the historical development par excellence.”
We all now live in Google town. Suddenly, we were forced to identify the lineaments of a new regime. A new mode of production: a turbo-capitalist survival engineered as Rentier Capitalism 2.0, where Silicon Valley behemoths take the place of estates, and also the State. That is the “techno-feudal” option, as defined by economist Cedric Durand.
Squeezed and intoxicated by information performing the role of a dominatrix, we were presented with a new map of Dystopia, packaged as a “new normal”, featuring cognitive dissonance, a biosecurity paradigm, the inevitability of virtual work, social distancing as a political program, info-surveillance, and triumphant Trans-humanism.
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Print length180 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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Publication dateJanuary 20, 2021
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Dimensions5.5 x 0.41 x 8.5 inches
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ISBN-101608882209
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- Publisher : Nimble Books LLC (January 20, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 180 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1608882209
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608882205
- Item Weight : 7.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.41 x 8.5 inches
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