1st Edition

Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded

By Agnes Horvath Copyright 2021
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author demonstrates not only the widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics, but also the... Read more

Introduction

1. Necromancy

2. The fluxed matrix

3. Replicators in compositions

4. Charis vs. the automaton

5. The raised power

6. Catacombing sensuals

7. The multiplicative automatism

Conclusion

Biography

Agnes Horvath is the chief and founding editor of International Political Anthropology. She is the author of Modernism and Charisma, the co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary, Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking, and The Political Sociology and Anthropology of the Evil: Tricksterology, and co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality, Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations, Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion, and Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery.