Elements Of Refusal
Edition: 2nd, Revised Edition
Publisher: CAL Press
Published: September 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781890532024
Subjects: Political; Philosophy / Political; Philosophy
First sentence: Just as today's most obsessive notion is that of the material reality of time, self-existent time was the first lie of social life.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Second Edition; title: Introduction to the First Edition; title: Beginning of Time, End of Time; title: Language: Origin and Meaning; title: Number: Its Origin and Evolution; title: The Case Against Art; title: Agriculture; title: Industrialism and Domestication; title: Who Killed Ned Ludd?; title: Axis Point of American Industrialism; title: The Practical Marx; title: Origins and Meaning of WWI; title: Taylorism and Unionism; title: Unionization in America; title: Organized Labor vs. "The Revolt Against Work"; title: New York, New York; title: The Refusal of Technology; title: Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control; title: The Promise of the '80s; title: The '80s So Far; title: Present-Day Banalities; title: Media, Irony and "Bob"; title: Afterward Commentary on Form and Content in Elements of Refusal; title: Notes; title: Author's Bibliography; title: Index; title: Appendix: Excerpts from Adventures in Subversion: Flyers and Posters, 1981-85