BASCHET Jerome.
Shifts. Emerging worlds, desirable possibilities.
The Discovery
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| N° d'inventaire | 25776 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 264 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782348066733 |
To the notion of collapse, which depoliticizes the issues by postulating a single, as if predetermined trajectory, we will oppose that of shifts , which allows us to make room for the growing unpredictability of our times and the central role of political mobilization. Shifts will indeed occur, in the relatively short term, against the backdrop of a systemic crisis of capitalism , certainly produced by the environmental "contradictions" that are ravaging the planet, but also by internal tensions between fossil capitalism and techno-"ecological" capitalism. On this analytical basis, the book outlines several scenarios, all perfectly plausible at this stage.
There is one to which he particularly draws our attention: that of an opening of possibilities synonymous with considerable societal and civilizational shifts that would engage us towards ways of living that escape the logic of the capitalist world-system. And would place us before fundamental questions: what can be an arrangement of production that renounces the centrality of economic determinations? What can be a policy that favors popular self-government and assumes communal relocation? How can we establish new relationships with non-humans that cease to extract us from the interdependencies of the living without entirely dissolving the notion of humanity? And by what paths can we make such possibilities grow?
So many questions to which Jérôme Baschet – with exceptional erudition, clarity and freedom of thought – sketches out answers that are as plausible and documented as they are eminently desirable.
There is one to which he particularly draws our attention: that of an opening of possibilities synonymous with considerable societal and civilizational shifts that would engage us towards ways of living that escape the logic of the capitalist world-system. And would place us before fundamental questions: what can be an arrangement of production that renounces the centrality of economic determinations? What can be a policy that favors popular self-government and assumes communal relocation? How can we establish new relationships with non-humans that cease to extract us from the interdependencies of the living without entirely dissolving the notion of humanity? And by what paths can we make such possibilities grow?
So many questions to which Jérôme Baschet – with exceptional erudition, clarity and freedom of thought – sketches out answers that are as plausible and documented as they are eminently desirable.
There is one to which he particularly draws our attention: that of an opening of possibilities synonymous with considerable societal and civilizational shifts that would engage us towards ways of living that escape the logic of the capitalist world-system. And would place us before fundamental questions: what can be an arrangement of production that renounces the centrality of economic determinations? What can be a policy that favors popular self-government and assumes communal relocation? How can we establish new relationships with non-humans that cease to extract us from the interdependencies of the living without entirely dissolving the notion of humanity? And by what paths can we make such possibilities grow?
So many questions to which Jérôme Baschet – with exceptional erudition, clarity and freedom of thought – sketches out answers that are as plausible and documented as they are eminently desirable.