"Capital is a semiotic operator": this assertion by Flix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjectivity. Mo...(展开全部)

"Capital is a semiotic operator": this assertion by Flix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjectivity. Mo...(展开全部)

Michael Burawoy has studied industrial workplaces in different parts of the world -- Zambia, Chicago, Hungary and Russia -- through participant observation. In his different projects he has tried to cast light -- from the standpoint of the workplace -- on the nature of postcolonialism, on the organization of consent to capitalism, on the peculiar forms of working class consciou...(展开全部)

麦克·布洛维（Michael Burawoy，1947—）加州大学伯克利分校社会学系教授，著名的马克思主义社会学家、劳动研究专家、工厂民族志实践者。曾任美国社会学学会会长、国际社会学会会长。布洛维曾在赞比亚的矿厂、东欧的工厂、美国的车间进行长期和深入的参与式观察，发展了“拓展个案法”，提出“全球民族志”的概念。作为马克思主义者和质性研究的实践者，布洛维凭卓越的学术能力和传奇的工厂经验，在美国社会学界获得了赞誉。近年来，他致力于在世界各地推广公共社会学，呼吁学界与公众不断对话以推动社会发展。代表作品有《制造同意》《公共社会学》《拓展个案法》《全球民族志》等。

At the dawn of the modern era, philosophers reinterpreted their subject as the study of consciousness, pushing the body to the margins of philosophy. With the arrival of Husserlian thought in the late nineteenth century, the body was once again understood to be part of the transcendental field. And yet, despite the enormous influence of Husserl’s phenomenology, the role of "emb...(展开全部)

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflex...(展开全部)

Focusing on the notion of the subject in Sartre’s and Adorno’s philosophies, David Sherman argues that they offer complementary accounts of the subject that circumvent the excesses of its classical formation, yet are sturdy enough to support a concept of political agency, which is lacking in both poststructuralism and second-generation critical theory. Sherman uses Sartre’s fir...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In an inquiry that encompasses a probe of the human psyche, an analysis of the organization of primitive society, and an examination of the sources of profit and the accumulation of wealth, the noted economist explores the nature and dynamics of capitalism.

This book gives information on studies based on sociology and capitalism.