{"product_id":"sovereignty-inc-william-mazzarella-9780226668413","title":"Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment","description":"What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of \u003ci\u003eSovereignty, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding--such is the new sovereignty business in which, whether one belongs to his base or not, we are all \"incorporated.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on anthropology, political theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theater, William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster show how politics in the age of Trump functions by mobilizing a contradictory and convoluted enjoyment, an explosive mixture of drives and fantasies that eludes existing portraits of our era. The current political moment turns out to be not so much exceptional as exceptionally revealing of the constitutive tension between enjoyment and economy that has always been a key component of the social order. Santner analyzes the collective dream-work that sustains a new sort of authoritarian charisma or \u003ci\u003emana\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003emana-facturing\u003c\/i\u003e process that keeps us riveted to an excessively carnal incorporation of sovereignty. Mazzarella examines the contemporary merger of consumer brand and political brand and the cross-contamination of politics and economics, warning against all too easy laments about the corruption of politics by marketing. Schuster, focusing on the extreme theatricality and self-satirical comedy of the present, shows how authority reasserts itself at the very moment of distrust and disillusionment in the system, profiting off its supposed decline. A dazzling diagnostic of our present, \u003ci\u003eSovereignty, Inc., \u003c\/i\u003e forces us to come to terms with our complicity in Trump's political presence and will immediately take its place in discussions of contemporary politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Mazzarella,Eric L. Santner,Aaron Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022666841X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226668413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"William Mazzarella","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437883240703,"sku":"9780226668413","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3aaedf73-c506-4d94-905e-08f5c1fb419f.jpg?v=1777167419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sovereignty-inc-william-mazzarella-9780226668413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}