Ak press apr 2021 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cancel culture addresses real harm.and sometimes causes more. It's time to think this through.'Cancel' or 'call-out' culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous 'Harper's Letter,' signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, call outs are seen by some as having gone too far. But what is 'too far' when you're talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm And what happens when people in social justice movements direct their righteous anger inward at one another In We Will Not Cancel Us, movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond this impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from from its targets. However, brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us Does it prefigure the sort of world we want to live in And, if it doesn't, how do we seek accountability and redress for harm in ways that reflect our values With an Afterword by Malkia Devich-Cyril.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring the meanings and powers of love from ancient Greece to the present day, Richard Gilman-Opalsky argues that what is called 'love' by the best thinkers who have approached the subject is in fact the beating heart of communism-understood as a way of living, not as a form of government. Along the way, he reveals with clarity that the capitalist way of assigning value to things is incapable of appreciating what humans value most. Capitalism cannot value the experiences and relationships that make our lives worth living and can only destroy love by turning it into a commodity. The Communism of Love follows the struggles of love in different contexts of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and shows how the aspiration for love is as close as we may get to a universal communist aspiration.…