The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought (Problems of International Politics)

<p>The American and Latin American independence movements emerged from distinctive settings and produced divergent results, but they were animated by similar ideas. Patriotic political theorists throughout the Americas offered analogous critiques of imperial rule, designed comparable constitutions, and expressed common ambitions for their new nations' future relations with one another and the rest of the world. This book adopts a hemispheric perspective on the revolutions that liberated the United States and Spanish America, offering a new interpretation of their most important political ideas. Simon argues that the many points of agreement among various revolutionary political theorists across the Americas can be attributed to the problems they encountered in common as Creoles - that is, as the descendants of European settlers born in the Americas. He illustrates this by comparing the political thought of three Creole revolutionaries: Alexander Hamilton of the United States, Simón Bolívar of Venezuela, and Lucas Alamán of Mexico.</p>

History

Simon, Joshua

Americas

Cambridge University Press

In this absorbing theoretical manifesto, Israeli curator Joshua Simonargues that we have moved into an economy of neomaterialism.Despite the rhetoric of dematerialization in art practices since the 1960s, the embodiment of materiality has actually just shifted: the focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject and symbols now behave like materials. Here, Simon advocates for the unreadymade, sentimental value andthe promise of the individual as a means for a vocabulary in this neweconomy of meaning. Reflecting on general intellect as labor and thesubjugation of an overqualified generation to the neo-feudal order ofdebt finance, Neomaterialism merges traditions of epic communismwith the communism that is already here.

Neomaterialism

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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