{"product_id":"austerity-apparatus-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoufawad-Paul, J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - J. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto with his partner, artist and curator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVicky Moufawad-Paul, and their daughter Samiya. He works as adjunct\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efaculty at York University where he received his doctorate in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy. He is the author of The Communist Necessity and Continuity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Rupture, and he blogs at the popular MLM Mayhem.","brand":"Kersplebedeb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764126089490,"sku":"9781894946896","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54cbe29b-15eb-4214-a166-75dfea077c51.jpg?v=1764757071","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/austerity-apparatus-9781894946896","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}