The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a
groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading
scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of
corporate-state structures of hegemonic power—what the editors refer
to as “the power complex”—that was first analyzed by C. Wright
Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume
edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter
McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted,
interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading
insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional
relationships of the power complex combine the logics of capitalist
exploitation and profits and industrialist norms of efficiency,
control, and mass production, While some have begun to analyze these
institutional complexes as separate entities, this book is unique in
analyzing them as overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate
globally and which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the
21st century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex—a
grand power complex of complexes—thus poses one of the most
formidable challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy,
freedom and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of
opposition to it until it is more popularly named and understood. The
Global Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to
this emerging educational and political project.
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Systems of Domination
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780739136997
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Antall sider
344