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General Intellects: Twenty Five Thinkers for the 21st Century
McKenzie Wark
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Description for General Intellects: Twenty Five Thinkers for the 21st Century
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What has happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre, de Beauvoir or Stuart Hall of the present age? In General Intellects, McKenzie Wark introduces us to 25 thinkers who are transforming the landscape of ideas in the 21st century, covering topics such as politics, culture, psychoanalysis, the anthropocene, and the 'nonhuman'. Each chapter explores an individual thinker, places them within the intellectual landscape, showing how they are opening up new horizons that will define our times. Wark, a respected theorist in his own right, also critically engages with their work. This ... Read more
What has happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre, de Beauvoir or Stuart Hall of the present age? In General Intellects, McKenzie Wark introduces us to 25 thinkers who are transforming the landscape of ideas in the 21st century, covering topics such as politics, culture, psychoanalysis, the anthropocene, and the 'nonhuman'. Each chapter explores an individual thinker, places them within the intellectual landscape, showing how they are opening up new horizons that will define our times. Wark, a respected theorist in his own right, also critically engages with their work. This ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786631909
SKU
V9781786631909
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99-50
About McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, The Beach Beneath the Street, and Molecular Red among other books. They teachss at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.
Reviews for General Intellects: Twenty Five Thinkers for the 21st Century
A wonderful book ... informative and moving ... a great recovery of an instructive life and literary effort. The book makes the case for a kind of political vision and action we need to recognize and enact. A true pleasure to read. - Kim Stanley Robinson, [for Molecular Red] A very imaginative, historically smart, politically generative thesis ... ... Read more