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Elements Of Refusal
September 11, 2006, CAL Press
Hardcover
in English
- 2nd, Revised Edition
1890532029 9781890532024
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Elements of Refusal
January 1, 1999, CAL Press
Paperback
in English
- 2nd edition
1890532010 9781890532017
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Book Details
First Sentence
"Just as today's most obsessive notion is that of the material reality of time, self-existent time was the first lie of social life."
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
Beginning of Time, End of Time
Language: Origin and Meaning
Number: Its Origin and Evolution
The Case Against Art
Agriculture
Industrialism and Domestication
Who Killed Ned Ludd?
Axis Point of American Industrialism
The Practical Marx
Origins and Meaning of WWI
Taylorism and Unionism
Unionization in America
Organized Labor vs. "The Revolt Against Work"
New York, New York
The Refusal of Technology
Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control
The Promise of the '80s
The '80s So Far
Present-Day Banalities
Media, Irony and "Bob"
Afterward Commentary on Form and Content in Elements of Refusal
Notes
Author's Bibliography
Index
Appendix: Excerpts from Adventures in Subversion: Flyers and Posters, 1981-85
The Physical Object
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