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- 9781803416625
- Book Title
- Against the Vortex : Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Hunt Publishing The Limited, John
- Publication Year
- 2024
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- English
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- Genre
- Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
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- History & Theory, General, Political, Sociology / Social Theory
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John Boorman's 1974 film, Zardoz, is more than just a psychedelic cult film-it addresses and anticipates a host of increasingly urgent questions around technology, social organisation, and the burgeoning ecological crisis. Rather than curio or misfire, the film is a satirical and surreal salvo aimed at the techno-utopians and global population managers of the postwar period (and, by extension, their intellectual heirs, our own present-day crop of long-termists and transhumanists). Against The Vortex accordingly links the film to the work of other Critical Aquarians: various neo-Luddite and ecologically minded post-Sixties visionaries, ranging from Ivan Illich to Ursula Le Guin, who rejected both hyper-modernist visions of infinite, high-tech growth on a finite planet and Malthsian austerity in favor of a utopia within limits. In the face of our own intersecting social and ecological crises, this Critical Aquarian archive offers us an alternative vision of a future that embraces natality and mortality, degrowth and utopia.
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Hunt Publishing The Limited, John
ISBN-10
1803416629
ISBN-13
9781803416625
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2335465542
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Book Title
Against the Vortex : Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, General, Political, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4.3 Oz
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Hx806.G3 2023
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Few people have seen the 1974 film Zardoz. And even those who have will likely remember little more than Sean Connery running around the desert with a space gun, wearing only a red diaper and thigh-high leather boots. Anthony Galluzzo, however, has watched this camp cult classic very closely and has drawn many fascinating lessons from the psychedelic wreckage. Indeed, Galluzzo has a genius for using neglected and misunderstood cultural texts as a prism for fiercely independent ideological critique, as well as opportunities for sketching promising political paths not taken. In this case, the author offers the intriguing prospect of a "critical aquarianism": a concept and orientation that recovers the less compromised utopian energies of the past in order to fight the more Promethean techno-utopias of the present (and ominous near-future). Quite a feat! Indeed, who knew that Sean Connery was carrying quite so much inside that lurid red diaper?, Like a pastry chef who can MacGyver a five-star dessert out of a Twinkie or a Jell-O packet, Anthony Galluzzo confects something special from the unlikeliest of industrial products: the 1974 Connery-Rampling vehicle Zardoz. His secret ingredient is 'critical aquarianism,' a counter-modernist blend of radical tech critique and ebullient degrowth, and it carries the flavor of radical, careful thinking. Readers who rail among and against the machines of the world will savor this book, even in the waste and ruin., Against the Vortex is a delightful and surprisingly hopeful read. In the guise of film criticism, Anthony Galluzzo has laid out the foundation of a biocentric utopianism that re-directs our political imaginations away from technological delusion and towards what is truly possible. It turns out I'm a critical Aquarian, and you'll probably discover that you are, too.
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