What's These Worlds Coming To?

by Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurélien Barrau

Book Overview

Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and networks of cross-national assemblages and we do this at the same time as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823263347
• ISBN13: 9780823263349
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 9.2"