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Global Systemic Crisis
About This Book
Our world has transformed over recent decades with concerning trends that threaten to destabilize nation states, abolish society and culture, establish digital control over individuals, erase identity, and diminish what makes us human. While the economic crisis garners attention, today's crisis encompasses much more – politics, civil society, science, philosophy, education, art, religion, traditional values, and other facets of life. This signals a systemic crisis of modern global capitalism.This book surveys today's pivotal trends, contrasting the dying old world with the emerging new one including their social systems, social sciences, and conceptions of humanity. Drawing on extensive research, it features interviews and lectures by prominent yet little-known thinkers, especially for English readers.Of particular value, the work synthesizes insights from diverse domains – news, scientific and monographic articles, video lectures, films, and manga. The copious footnotes and bibliography constitute a significant portion of the text, providing sources for further investigation.Overall, this book aims to furnish keys to analysing today's interwoven crises, serving as a guidebook for comprehending the contemporary age holistically. It empowers readers to conduct their own inquiries into this crucial juncture that will shape the future.Sure to intrigue even those less versed in the subject matter.
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- Global Systemic Crisis
- About the Author
- Copyright Information ©
- Instead of a Foreword, or a Kind of Introduction
- The Crisis of Capitalism
- Capitalism Became Ultra-Imperialism
- Ultra-Imperialism Became Corporatocracy
- Old Capitalism, or a Shark in Agony
- Digitalisation of Finance
- Doddery Capitalism, or Decrepit Uncle Sam Riding a Bicycle
- Ecce Caput
- The Crisis of the Old World Order
- Reset from a Lexical Point of View
- Reset from a Historical Point of View
- The Present Through the Prism of the Past
- Run the Show with the New Concert of Powers
- The Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Act of God?
- In Great Reset We Trust?
- The Crisis of the New World Order
- Great Reset, or Anti-Modernity
- Stakeholderism, or True Lies
- Truths and Lies About Stakeholderism
- Stakeholders Vs Human Beings
- Great Expropriation Requires Great Revaluation of Values
- Inclusivity As Gleichschaltung
- The Crisis of Social Science
- Scholasticism of Modern Science
- Cheshire Cat Smile, or Intellectual Fast Food
- The USA and the USSR Behind the School Desk
- Dead Science, or Cultural Hegemony of the Ruling Class
- Adequate Knowledge As a Sinister Intellectual Superiority
- The Crisis of Human Being
- Ἄνθρωποσ Μέτρον, or It’s Always About Human Being
- Homines Digital
- Political Prostitutes in the Giant Spider’s Digital Web
- Inglorious Bastards and Spiritual Castration
- Homo Obediens, or the Era of Human Beings Is over?
- Γνωθι Σέαυτον, or Cadres Decide Everything
- Instead of an Afterword, or a Kind of Conclusion