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Bülent Somay

    Questo autore esplora problemi sociali e culturali contemporanei con una posizione originale che fonde l'analisi letteraria con il pensiero critico. Il suo lavoro è caratterizzato da una profonda visione della psiche umana e delle strutture sociali, impiegando spesso elementi di fantascienza e letteratura utopica/distopica. I testi trascendono frequentemente i confini di genere, intrecciando riflessioni filosofiche con osservazioni acute del mondo moderno, spingendo i lettori a contemplare la natura della realtà e il futuro.

    The End of Truth: Five Essays on The Demise of Neoliberalism
    Something is Missing: Things We don't Want to Know about Love, Sex and Life
    • 2021

      What seems to be happening throughout the last decade is the gradual invalidation and dissolution of what we used to call 'Truth', and hence the disruption and gradual dissolution of what Foucault had called the existing hierarchical "Regime of Truth". What remains is not what Marx had hoped to be a more egalitarian regime in which "the educator{s themselves are also] educated", but rather a 'Humpty Dumpty Regime', where 'Truth' is whatever the Humpty-Dumpty in power wants it to be. This book argues that this is an unmediated outcome of the profound social, cultural and economic crisis of neoliberal capitalism, and its political corollary, the meteoric rise of populism and authoritarianism, not only in the so-called 'developing' countries, but throughout the entire globe. CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION: AFTER NEOLIBERALISM, THE FLOOD? CHAPTER 1. ON RADICAL AMBIGUITY CHAPTER 2. THE MIDAS BLESSING: TURNING COMMODITIES INTO GIFTS CHAPTER 3. THE END OF TRUTH AS WE KNOW IT - THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY DISCOURSE CHAPTER 4. THE GAME OF THRONES AS A FAILED ATTEMPT AT UNIVERSAL POPULISM CHAPTER 5. THE PSYCHOPOLITICS OF THE ENTITLED VICTIM - THE COMING OF AGE OF CONTEMPORARY POPULISM

      The End of Truth: Five Essays on The Demise of Neoliberalism