Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism

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Capitalism critique, imagining post-capitalist futures.

If you're resonating with the unrest in our current socio-economic climate, "Totalled" could provide you with a thought-provoking exploration of the fabric of capitalism and its pervasive impacts on society. Cremin isn't just critiquing; they're guiding you through a labyrinth of modern challenges, offering a glimpse at salvageable pieces amidst the chaos with propositions that could inspire practical change. It's a read that beckons the critically minded to envisage and work towards a future beyond capitalist confines.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism

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ISBN: 9780745334370
Authors: Ciara Cremin
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date of Publication: 2015-02-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Economics, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.67
(rated by 12 readers)

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Have you ever felt totaled? In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the totality of our social relations, having woven itself deeply into the fabric of what it means to be human. He shows how the capitalist system totalizes everything in its path, as evidenced in industrialized warfare, modern surveillance, commodification, and political control. With ever deepening social crises and ecological catastrophes this system threatens civilization as we know it. But among the wreckage of capitalism, Cremin argues, we can still find functioning parts, machines to be salvaged. To do so, it is imperative that we be able to both imagine and realize a future other than the apocalypticism forewarned by scientists, prescribed by economists, accommodated by politicians, and made into spectacle by the entertainment industry. Totalled maps the deteriorating socio-economic, political, and ecological conditions in which we live. Yet Cremin asks how a utopian possibility discernable in the power of human creation can be realized when as a society we are bound up materially, ideologically, libidinally—totally—to the capitalist machine of destruction. Totalled concludes with a politically and economically grounded set of propositions on how we might begin to imagine such a possibility.
 

Capitalism critique, imagining post-capitalist futures.

If you're resonating with the unrest in our current socio-economic climate, "Totalled" could provide you with a thought-provoking exploration of the fabric of capitalism and its pervasive impacts on society. Cremin isn't just critiquing; they're guiding you through a labyrinth of modern challenges, offering a glimpse at salvageable pieces amidst the chaos with propositions that could inspire practical change. It's a read that beckons the critically minded to envisage and work towards a future beyond capitalist confines.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.