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The Pornographic Age
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You might enjoy this book if you are intrigued by philosophical discussions addressing the commodification and spectacle of contemporary society. With a critical lens on modern culture's obsession with entertainment and superficiality, this work challenges readers to reconsider the deeper implications of living in a media-saturated age.
The Pornographic Age
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Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterise it.
Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal capitalism. In The Pornographic Age, he asks us to hold up a mirror to ourselves and confront the debasement of the political realities in which we live, the shock of which must galvanise us into action. It is only through this realisation, this crucial confrontation with the perversity with which we conduct our daily lives, that we can prompt true revolution.
Including an afterword from international Badiou scholars A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens and a commentary by William Watkin, this book is a philosophical call to arms: Badiouβs radical indictment of the current age is an exciting, no-holds-barred exploration of both how we live and how we might live.
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The Pornographic Age by Alain Badiou critiques the contemporary interpretation of democracy, contrasting it with its original concept as the power of the people. The translation by A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens is praised for its precision and depth. Badiou delivers a thorough analysis through the lens of Jean Genet's The Balcony, presenting a provocative exploration of modern ideological fetishes.
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ISBN: 9781350014794
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 January 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Contributors:
- Translated by A. J. Bartlett
- Translated by Justin Clemens
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 136
About the Author
Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the Γcole Normale SupΓ©rieure, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the UniversitΓ© de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-FranΓ§ois Lyotard.
A. J. Bartlett teaches philosophy in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (2011), co-author of Lacan Deleuze Badiou (2014) and What is Impossible: Alain Badiou and Contemporary Philosophy (2016). He is also the co-editor of Badiou: Key Concepts (2010), The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006) and co-editor and translator of Alain Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury 2014).
Justin Clemens is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory (2003), Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy (2013) and, with A.J. Bartlett and Jon Roffe, Lacan Deleuze Badiou (2014). He has edited many academic collections, including translating and editing Alain Badiou's Infinite Thought (Continuum 2003) with Oliver Feltham.
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