Counter-History of the Present : Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy

Rockhill, Gabriel

Duke University Press（2017/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822369646
• DDC分類 909.83

Full Description

In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack economic security, digital access, and real political power, Rockhill interrogates the ways in which this grand narrative has emerged in the same historical, economic, and cultural context as the fervid expansion of neoliberalism. He also critiques the concurrent valorization of democracy, which is often used to justify U.S. military interventions on the behalf of capital. Developing an alternative account of the current conjuncture that acknowledges the plurality of lived experiences around the globe and in different social strata, he shifts the foundations upon which debates about the contemporary world can be staged. Rockhill's counter-history thereby offers a new grammar for historical narratives, creating space for the articulation of futures no longer engulfed in the perpetuation of the present.

Contents

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Toward a Counter-History of the Present  1
1. A Specter Is Haunting Globalization  11
2. Are We Really Living in a Technological Era?  33
3. What Is the Use of Democracy? Urgency of an Inappropriate Question  51
Afterword. Taking Charge of the Meanings and Direction of History  103
Notes  109
Bibliography  133
Index  143