{"product_id":"infrapolitics-a-handbook-paperback","title":"Infrapolitics: A Handbook - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlberto Moreiras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. \u003ci\u003eInfrapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Provocative and gripping. You won't look at life and politics--and the wedge in between them--in the same way again.\"--\u003cb\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGrieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Moreiras's \u003ci\u003eInfrapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e gives flesh and blood to a concept that subverts liberal individualism, on the one hand, and collective communitarianism--reactionary, progressivist, or communist--on the other. Infrapolitics challenges the very notion of the political, while appreciating concrete and ontic uses the ancient and modern concept once envisioned but failed to realize.\"--\u003cb\u003eHent de Vries\u003c\/b\u003e, New York University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most important books concerning contemporary thought written this century.\"--\u003cb\u003eBrett Levinson\u003c\/b\u003e, SUNY Binghamton \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. \u003ci\u003eInfrapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a change in seeing and an everyday practice that subtracts from political totalization in the name of a new production of desire, of a new emancipation, and of a conception of experience that can breach the general captivation of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Alberto Moreiras describes a form of thought aiming to provide content for a form of life and to offer a new theoretical practice for concrete existence. The book provides a genealogy of the notion of infrapolitics and places it within contemporary philosophical reflection, examining its deployment in the wake of postphenomenology and deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, the principle of anarchy, and an egalitarian symbolization of social life. In doing so, Moreiras elaborates Infrapolitics as both a general critique of the political apparatus and as an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlberto Moreiras\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A\u0026amp;M University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlberto Moreiras \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A\u0026amp;M University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke University Press, 2001), \u003ci\u003eAgainst Abstraction: Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Texas Press, 2020), \u003ci\u003eSosiego siniestro\u003c\/i\u003e (Guillermo Escolar, 2020), and \u003ci\u003eTercer espacio y otros relatos \u003c\/i\u003e(SPLASH, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45661986422886,"sku":"9780823298365","price":65.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/R0plMEV0ZHVzNGlvaldHSVYrb1hvQT09.webp?v=1779774380","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/infrapolitics-a-handbook-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}