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The art of shrinking heads : on the new servitude of the liberated in the age of total capitalism

Dany-Robert Dufour, David Macey

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Foreword. 1. From Modernity to Postmodernity. Mapping the Transition. 2. Homo Zappiens Goes to School. The Denial of Generational Difference. 3. The Denial of Sexion. 4. Neo-Liberalism as Desymbolisation. A New Form of Domination. Acknowledgements. Bibliography.

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Foreword. 1. From Modernity to Postmodernity. Mapping the Transition. 2. Homo Zappiens Goes to School. The Denial of Generational Difference. 3. The Denial of Sexion. 4. Neo-Liberalism as Desymbolisation. A New Form of Domination. Acknowledgements. Bibliography.

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Foreword. 1. From Modernity to Postmodernity. Mapping the Transition. 2. Homo Zappiens Goes to School. The Denial of Generational Difference. 3. The Denial of Sexion. 4. Neo-Liberalism as Desymbolisation. A New Form of Domination. Acknowledgements. Bibliography.

Key concepts: Denial, Postmodernity, Modernity, Capitalism, Resizing, Liberalism, Economic history, Sociology

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