Rather than liberate humanity from tyranny, modern enlightenment has wound up subjecting us to a new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. Our national democracies are an imperial farce and the most that intellectuals either know or dare to do in the face of all this destruction is to blithely recommend resistance. In this pamphlet, which we publish in anticipation of the book Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction, we challenge the self-defeating notion that intellectuals should settle for resistance and urge them to accomplish much more. With this aim in mind, we construct a cosmology of enlightenment that regards it as an unstable epiphenomenon, we critique the limits of the enlightenment of Pax Americana, and we provide an epistemological theory and demonstration of intellectual participation in civil society. As such, we promote a reflexive challenge to the spectacle that defines our reality today. Spectacle assigns to the intellectual the role of the critic, on the one hand, and on the other, that of the soothsayer of princes. In opposition to both and on the basis of this radical critique, we propose a trespassive tradition of cultural leadership.

Spectacle of Enlightenment: The Bulgaria Essays, 2016

History

Subirats, Eduardo

Britt-Arredondo, Christopher

Fenn, Paul Douglas

Europe

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<div> This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual.&nbsp; The modern intellectual--who had once been associated with humanism and enlightenment--has in our day been replaced by media stars, talking heads, and technical experts. At issue is the ongoing crisis of democracy, under the aegis of the société du spectacle and its vast networks of politically-induced idiocy, industrially-produced biocide, and militarily-provoked genocide.&nbsp; Spectacle fills the resulting moral and intellectual vacuum with electronic technologies of control, punishment, and destruction.&nbsp; This postmodern tyranny reduces intelligence to mechanistic, positivist, and grammatological models of inquiry, while increasing the segmentation, fragmentation, and dissolution of human existence. The apotheosis of the spectacle explains the intellectual void that lies at the heart of our postmodern decadence; it also accounts for the need to recuperate the humanist values of enlightenment promoted by the modern intellectual tradition. </div>

Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle

Literature & Fiction

Britt, Christopher

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism of providential enlightenment, and the examination of positive dialectics. The spectacle, in this case, is the apotheosis of the culture industries, a total inversion of reality and of our existences. Providential enlightenment is not only a critique of the failure of enlightenment, but of the mutilation of historical enlightenments. Positive dialectics signal a new era of intellectual engagement in the construction of our historical future. During a time in which national democracies seem an imperial farce, it is not enough for intellectuals faced with all this destruction to blithely recommend resistance. The book thus ties American, British, French and German theoretical traditions into a reflexive challenge to the notion of intellectual as critic, and argues instead for a trespassive tradition of cultural leadership.

Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction: Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)

Politics & Social Sciences

Fenn, Paul

Philosophy

La recuperación de la memoria (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Montesinos

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El reino de la belleza (Cuadernos de la Catedra Alfonso Reyes del Technologico de Monterrey, 93) (Spanish Edition)

Social Sciences

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Linterna mágica: Vanguardia, media y cultura tardomoderna (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Siruela

El Continente Vacio (Spanish Edition)

Americas

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Arte en una edad de destrucción (Spanish Edition)

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