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Massumi

Beyond Compare

The Colour of Value

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7574-9
Verlag: Polity Press
Erscheinungstermin: 19.11.2026
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"(I) To live, (II) to live well, (III) to live better." A. N. Whitehead concisely sums up the question of ethics in this phrase. Less a conclusion, it is the opening of a problem. "Well," "better," by what yardstick? Can we think ethically without the imposition of a norm that prejudges value according to a preset mold? When a norm is imposed, is it not always limitative, channeling behavior, and segregative, drawing lines of exclusion and inclusion? In short, does this anodyne phrase camouflage a disciplinary power operation that molds and reduces life potential? Not if we envision a radically non-normative ethics.

In this book, Brian Massumi takes up the challenge of a non-normative ethics. It is necessary, Massumi argues, to fundamentally reforge value along different axes of thought and feeling. The compass needle of the ethical must swing to the aesthetic, toward the fulfilment of the ethico-aesthetic paradigm called for by Félix Guattari.

Beyond Compare is a magisterial reappraisal of value from one of the defining philosophers of the past quarter-century.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781509575749
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-5095-7574-9
  • Verlag: Polity Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 19.11.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Seiten: 212
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction - Revaluing Value1 Envisioning the Virtual2 Aesthetic Frights and the Politics of Unspeakable Thought3 Virtual Ecology and the Question of Value4 The Parainstitutional Imperative: Towards an Anarchism of Value5 Immediation Unlimited6 What Thinking DoesReintroduction - Norms Behaving Badly: Normopathy TodayNotesBibliographyIndex