Possibilities : essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire /
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Oakland, CA ; Edinburgh :
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Some thoughts on the origins of our current predicament. Manners, deference, and private property: or, elements for a general theory of hierarchy
- The very idea of consumption: desire, phantasms, and the aesthetics of destruction from medieval times to the present
- Turning modes of production inside-out: or, why capitalism is a transformation fo slavery (short version)
- Fetishism as social creativity: or, fetishes are gods in the process of construction
- pt. 2. Provisional autonomous zone: dilemmas of authority in rural Madagascar. Provisional autonomous zone: or, the ghost-state in Madagascar
- Dancing with corpses resonsidered: an interpretation of Famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madigascar)
- Love magic and political morality in central Madagascar, 1875-1990
- Oppression
- pt. 3. Direct action, direct democracy, and social theory. The twilight of vanguardism
- Social theory as science and utopia: or, does the prospect of a general sociological theory still mean anything in an age of globalization?
- There never was a west: or, democracy emerges from the spaces in between
- On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture.