{"product_id":"resilient-life-9780745671536","title":"Resilient Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of    resilience    that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brad Evans and Julian Reid provide a radical critique of the concept of resilience and its traveling companions of vulnerability, insecurity, and catastrophe”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"One of the most radical and illuminating critiques of the currently fashionable notion of resilience.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSaskia Sassen, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Anyone interested in political theory after biopolitics must read this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCary Wolfe, Rice University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Evans and Reid do more than provide a devastating critique of resilience – they dare us to leave this barren landscape by having the confidence to embrace human life as art, and to assert our poetic and dramatic subjectivities against the dominance of the machine.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMark Duffield, University of Bristol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A tour de force. Brad Evans and Julian Reid mount a powerful indictment of the prophetic image of thought and the oppressive worldview of endless insecurity and threat that such thinking produces. If there is any possibility of welcoming and celebrating a world yet to come, one that is radically different from what currently is, we must, they insist, begin by moving beyond the inertia and defeatism that a catastrophic imaginary generates.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdrian Parr, University of Cincinnati\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements ix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Anthropocene 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Insecure by Design 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Poverty of Vulnerability 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Living Dangerously 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Atmos 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Endgames 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Art of Politics 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 204\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography 223\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 231\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404419146071,"sku":"9780745671536","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745671536.jpg?v=1730486411","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resilient-life-9780745671536","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}