1st Edition
The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism Beyond Homo Faber
By Vando Borghi
Copyright 2026
126 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
126 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity, of which the “workman” or homo faber is the embodiment, who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins – in the form of symbolic misery, the Anthropocene and a process of... Read more
Introduction
1. Capitalism and infrastructures: A history of continuities and discontinuities
2. Between Globe and Planet: Renewing Kulturkritik in the ruins of capitalism
3. Possibilism: Searching for a logic of reproduction, beyond homo faber
(Instead of) conclusions
Biography
Vando Borghi is Full Professor of Sociology of Economic Processes, Work and Organization at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the co-editor of the Research Handbook on Public Sociology and Workers and the Global Informal Economy.
