{"title":"Jeremy Gilbert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Gilbert\u003c\/strong\u003e offers incisive explorations into contemporary political thought, focusing on the mechanisms of power and resistance. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eHegemony Now\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into critical theory and challenge prevailing narratives in political discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in progressive movements and the future of socialism will find his analysis in \u003cem\u003eTwenty-First Century Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e particularly compelling. Gilbert's books provide thoughtful perspectives on social change within the sphere of politics and current affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hegemony-now-by-alex-williams-9781786633149","title":"Hegemony Now","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhose world are we living in? The clear answer is the tech entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and the sections of finance capital most closely allied to them. In \u003cem\u003eHegemony Now\u003c\/em\u003e, Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams ask: How did this historic bloc of Wall Street and Silicon Valley establish their control over contemporary global culture?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHegemony Now\u003c\/em\u003e considers the political means by which finance capital—greatly assisted by emergent digital technologies—re-established pre-eminence within the capitalist class and across wider society in the 1980s and 1990s. Digital technology corporations such as Apple, Facebook, and Google have established virtual monopolies both on the distribution of information and on key infrastructures of everyday life, communication, and entertainment. Digital platforms, \u003cem\u003eHegemony Now\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear, are a key mechanism of institutionalised power, and the contemporary state can increasingly be understood as itself a form of platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat can be done, and by whom? What alliances and coalitions might have the potential to challenge the hegemony of the techno-financial elite? What programme might they coalesce around? And what technical and institutional infrastructures would we need to build in order to realise their political potential? The authors present a range of possible outcomes, from the utopic to the dystopian. \u003cem\u003eHegemony Now\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a theory of power and hegemony in the twenty-first century and a road-map for the fights ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849247019244,"sku":"9781786633149","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2860533482824.jpg?v=1759029975"},{"product_id":"twenty-first-century-socialism-by-jeremy-gilbert-9781509536566","title":"Twenty-First Century Socialism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat causes climate change, social breakdown, rampant inequality and the creeping spread of ubiquitous surveillance? Capitalism. What is the only alternative to capitalism? Socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSocialism cannot, however, remain static if it is going to save civilisation from these catastrophes. In this urgent manifesto for a 21st-century left, Jeremy Gilbert shows that we need a revitalised socialist politics that learns from the past to adapt to contemporary challenges. He argues that socialism must overcome its industrial origins and give priority to an environmental agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an age of global networks, digital technology and instant communication, central government diktat and restrictions on free speech and movement must be jettisoned. We need to control the economy rather than let it control us—but we must do this by empowering workers, citizens, and communities to run their world their way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s time to take back the wealth, the services and the platforms that our own energy has built. In the digital age, it’s time for \u003cem\u003eTwenty-First Century Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600989798636,"sku":"9781509536566","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509536566-twenty-first-century-socialism.jpg?v=1777993818"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jeremy-gilbert.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}