{"id":284,"date":"2011-10-31T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:46:26","slug":"revolutions-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Revolutions in Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination<br \/>\n<\/strong>David Graeber<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it\u2019s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can\u2019t imagine an alternative that wouldn\u2019t be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it?<\/p>\n<p>In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At a moment when the old assumption about politics and power have been irrefutably broken the only real choice is to begin again: to create a new language, a new common sense, about what people basically are and what it is reasonable for them to expect from the world, and from each other. In this volume Graeber draws from the realms of politics, art, and the imagination to start this conversation and to suggest that that the task might not be nearly so daunting as we\u2019d be given to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTINA, they say, there is no alternative. The essence of neoliberalism, David Graeber suggests, is its systematization of depression, its exclusion of all alternatives to an obviously catastrophic system. These stimulating essays rupture the wall of enclosure, push forward, and open paths that lead in hopeful directions. So important.\u201d \u2013 John Holloway, author of <em>Change The World Without Taking Power<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find the practical politics tendentious, but the theoretical elements provocative and intriguing\u201d \u2013 Kanellos the Greek Riot Dog<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio<\/strong>: David Graeber is an anarchist, an anthropologist, and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. He teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths. He is the author of multiple books including <em>Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value<\/em> and <em>Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-A7SJC2WWEM24W\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"A7SJC2WWEM24W\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-A7SJC2WWEM24W\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Release date November 30th, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Available now\u00a0directly from this site for \u00a310.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/revolutions-in-reverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-1090\">Revolutions in Reverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>120 pages, 6 x 9<br \/>\nUK: \u00a316 \/ US: $22<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-243-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination David Graeber Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. 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