{"product_id":"austerity-apparatus-j-moufawad-paul-9781894946896","title":"Austerity Apparatus","description":"\"By 2009, every anti-worker ideologue and their devotees had a popularized concept under which to mobilize their arguments about how and why workers should absorb the excesses of those capitalists who wanted to maintain their wealthy lifestyles: austerity. In this sense, the austerity apparatus is simply that which functions to police the everyday operations of crisis capitalism. In another sense this apparatus is the mobilization of operations that are a normative part of capitalism even without a crisis But this is simply due to the fact that economic crises are also part of capitalism's day-to-day functioning: capitalism is crisis, implicitly or explicitly.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn excavation of the ideology of austerity and its relationship to the mechanisms of capitalism, \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e is a philosophical excursion through a variety of concepts surrounding capitalist crisis and class struggle. Written as a series of interconnected meditations on the problematic of austerity, \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e is a creative intervention rather than a polemic or rigorous analysis; it is designed to force reflection on the ways in which contemporary capitalism conditions its subjects to accept its limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn examining the problematic of austerity, Moufawad-Paul also discusses the relationship between neoliberalism and fascism and the ways in which the latter is immanent to capitalism. This aspect of \u003cem\u003eAusterity Apparatus\u003c\/em\u003e should be of particular interest to readers exploring the meaning of the contemporary re-emergence of fascist politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Moufawad-Paul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1894946898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781894946896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kersplebedeb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.40h x 4.30w x 0.50d","brand":"J. Moufawad-Paul","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540616704255,"sku":"9781894946896","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c582284-5e1c-4c54-9282-f1b8435f48df.jpg?v=1700588906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/austerity-apparatus-j-moufawad-paul-9781894946896","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}