Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the postpandemic economy: nodimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse's onedimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense.This is Peter Fleming's brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist democracies. The scene is set in nodimensional man's natural habitats – the modern office, the corporate suite, the government bureau and the corporate university. In these treacherous climes Fleming reveals the dark power relations currently shaping the postindustrial system. This deep dive into the postindustrial pit explains the failure of capitalism in terms of its most contagious symptoms, including microjobs, multinational spread, shadow banking, financial predation, the working poor, and government by algorithm. Beset by every malaise of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, nodimensional man is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness characterizing capitalism today.
Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the postpandemic economy: nodimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse's onedimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense.This is Peter Fleming's brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist democracies. The scene is set in nodimensional man's natural habitats – the modern office, the corporate suite, the government bureau and the corporate university. In these treacherous climes Fleming reveals the dark power relations currently shaping the postindustrial system. This deep dive into the postindustrial pit explains the failure of capitalism in terms of its most contagious symptoms, including microjobs, multinational spread, shadow banking, financial predation, the working poor, and government by algorithm. Beset by every malaise of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, nodimensional man is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness characterizing capitalism today.
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