1st Edition
Ambiguities of Activism Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed
1. Complicities of Resistance: Activism in the Era of Acceleration 2. Tools of the Speed-Elite: Radical New Media Activism 3. The Migrant: the Speed-Elite’s Daydream of Radical Alterity 4. Humanism Overheating: The Conundrum of Climate Change Activism 5. Accelerating Deceleration: Out of the Cinders of Activism
Biography
Ingrid M. Hoofd is Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore.
"A spectre is haunting activism – the spectre of complicity. What worries this book is the possibility that forms of activism are subtly complicit with the very thing they oppose. Challenging the good conscience and self-congratulatory tendency of activism, this book is a deconstruction of activism in the spirit of activism. Essential reading for activists, academics, and those who wish to change the world." Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University, UK
"Hoofd’s book presents an essential critique and anti-dote to the utopian activism of the contemporary anti-capitalist leftists, such as Hardt and Negri, and shows how the ideas and practices of anti-capitalism may be complicit in the neo-liberalism of the speed elite." Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK
