{"product_id":"political-alchemy-technology-unbounded-paperback","title":"Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAgnes Horvath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author demonstrates not only the widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics, but also the acceleration of their deployment. A study of the steady growth of power as it reaches a continuous and permanent stage, thus avoiding the inherent difficulties connected with birth and death of political organisations and institutions, this volume reveals political alchemy to be a form of self-sustaining growth through sterile multiplication, devoid of meaning. Revealing both the integrative and disintegrative nature of a political process that, while appearing to work in the interests of all, in fact produces apathy, desperate mobilisation and despair by crushing concrete entities such as personality and tradition, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Alchemy: Technology Unbounded \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in social theory and political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAgnes Horvath\u003c\/strong\u003e is the chief and founding editor of \u003ci\u003eInternational Political Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eModernism and Charisma\u003c\/i\u003e, the co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWalking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Political Sociology and Anthropology of the Evil: Tricksterology\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBreaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWalling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDivinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eModern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715401249075,"sku":"9780367721459","price":100.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bER2eXhlU0FOWlEyU2pMa1RZbm9kdz09.webp?v=1763604124","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/political-alchemy-technology-unbounded-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}