The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism

by William E. Connolly

Book Overview

In The Fragility of Things , eminent theorist William E. Connolly focuses on several self-organizing ecologies that help to constitute our world. These interacting geological, biological, and climate systems, some of which harbor creative capacities, are depreciated by that brand of neoliberalism that confines self-organization to economic markets and equates the latter with impersonal rationality. Neoliberal practice thus fails to address the fragilities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822355841
• ISBN13: 9780822355847
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"