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Brutalism

by Achille Mbembe
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Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, January of 2024 ‧
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Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is to develop a new planetary consciousness and a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.

Brutalism

by Achille Mbembe

Property Description
ISBN: 9781478025580
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January of 2024
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 200
Format: Book
Collection: Theory In Forms
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Philosophy
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781478025580

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Achille Mbembe

Referência na área dos estudos pós-coloniais, Achille Mbembe (n. 1957) é professor de História e de Ciência Política na Universidade de Witwatersrand, em Joanesburgo, e leciona na Universidade Duke, nos EUA. Um dos pensadores contemporâneos mais prolíficos e ativos, tem uma extensa obra publicada sobre história e política africanas, na qual explora os temas do poder e da violência. É autor, entre outros ensaios, de De la postcolonie — Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine (2000), Sortir de la grande nuit — Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée (2010), Crítica da Razão Negra (Antígona, 2014) e Políticas da Inimizade (Antígona, 2017).

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