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Retort's Afflicted Powers Book Tour
Afflicted Powers:
Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Verso
Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present -- its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances.
Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movement, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory 'peace', the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.
Retort is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group's efforts to confront the current political moment and forms of resistance to it. Involved in the writing were Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Mattews, and Michael Watts.Thursday, June 16, 7:00 PM
The Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue (Boston's South End)
617.267.6272
Wednesday, June 22, 7:00 PM
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)
212.254.3697
Thursday, June 30, 7:00 PM
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place, London WC1
(call LRB: 207 269 9030 to book limited seating)
“This provocative and wide-ranging inquiry -- part analysis, part manifesto -- brings to light a new phase in the historical process of primitive accumulation, a form of bitter class war and social reconstruction now proceeding in the guise of what the authors depict as ‘military neo-liberalism’. The conclusions and analysis are brought to bear incisively on central events of the contemporary world, and...on how its serious threats can be confronted.” - Noam Chomsky
“A comprehensive analysis of America’s relationship with the world. No stone is left unturned. The maggots exposed are grotesque.” - Harold Pinter
Afflicted Powers:
Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Verso
Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present -- its lethal mixture of atavism and new-fangledness. A brute return of the past, calling to mind now the Scramble for Africa, now the Wars of Religion, is accompanied by an equally monstrous political deployment of (and entrapment in) the apparatus of a hyper-modern production of appearances.
Capital is attempting, nakedly, a new round of primitive accumulation. But never before has imperialism, and its dominant world power, been subject to real catastrophe in the realm of the spectacle. The present turn to empire is confronted by a variety of movement, including a new kind of vanguard whose weapons include the tool kit of spectacular politics. This book attempts to rethink the current global struggle, and to provide some critical support for present and future oppositions. Its main themes are the spectacle and September 11, blood for oil, permanent war and illusory 'peace', the US-Israel relationship, revolutionary Islam, and modernity and terror.
Retort is a gathering of antagonists to capital and empire, based for two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afflicted Powers arises from the group's efforts to confront the current political moment and forms of resistance to it. Involved in the writing were Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Mattews, and Michael Watts.Thursday, June 16, 7:00 PM
The Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue (Boston's South End)
617.267.6272
Wednesday, June 22, 7:00 PM
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)
212.254.3697
Thursday, June 30, 7:00 PM
London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place, London WC1
(call LRB: 207 269 9030 to book limited seating)
“This provocative and wide-ranging inquiry -- part analysis, part manifesto -- brings to light a new phase in the historical process of primitive accumulation, a form of bitter class war and social reconstruction now proceeding in the guise of what the authors depict as ‘military neo-liberalism’. The conclusions and analysis are brought to bear incisively on central events of the contemporary world, and...on how its serious threats can be confronted.” - Noam Chomsky
“A comprehensive analysis of America’s relationship with the world. No stone is left unturned. The maggots exposed are grotesque.” - Harold Pinter