The Historical Novel of Contemporary Capitalism

Special dossier on ‘La fiction politique’, eds. Emily Apter and Emmanuel Bouju.

Bringing Zombies Back to Life: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Alienation and Political Dis/Engagement in Emerging Adulthood Within Late-Stage Capitalism

In this thesis, by employing an autoethnographic methodology, I am exploring why certain understandings, or assemblages, of political engagement come to have greater meaning in my life and why other assemblages may be more hidden and thus fail to contribute substantially to the meaning of political in my life. Using immanent, Marxist and post-Marxist theories, as well as a zombie narrative, the study will contextualize the movement of assemblages in my life within late-stage capitalism which is juxtaposed with the zombie apocalypse. The placement and displacement of certain understandings of the political within my life will be theorized within the crisis of constituent power that is revealed in an immanent framework. Furthermore, the crisis of the constituent in late-stage capitalism creates new forms of radical alienation which will also be examined. By exploring my own struggles in becoming political I will theorize why political disengagement in emerging adulthood appears to be increasing, as well as possibilities for new forms of political engagement in a late-stage capitalist context.

An Ethical Analysis of Neoliberal Capitalism: Alternative Perspectives from Development Ethics

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Globalization and urban policy at the periphery of capitalism

Este artigo discute um tema complexo como é o planejamento urbano e que está passando por uma grande mudança no mundo revolucionado pela reestruturação da produção capitalista iniciada no fi nal do século XX. Esta análise permite uma série de recomendações: dar visibilidade a cidade real ou desconstruir a cidade virtual edifi cada pelo marketing urbano e interessesglobais, dar visibilidade aos confl itos, contruir reforma administrativa, capacitar agentes para o planejamento da ação, desenvolver reforma fundiária.

Capitalism.

Se explica el concepto de este sistema que domina la economía internacional desde la última década del siglo XX. Es lo que se llama globalización, surgida como resultado del fin de la Europa comunista y de la apertura de la China comunista a la empresa capitalista. También, se analizan sus relaciones con el colonialismo, el liberalismo político y la democracia y, asimismo, el surgimiento de los otros sistemas contrapuestos a él, el socialismo y después, el comunismo, su gran rival económico en el siglo XX. Se señalan las graves crisis sufridas por el sistema en el siglo pasado y las respuestas dadas a ellas por parte de los economistas y los gobernantes.