Idiocracy

The Culture of the New Idiot
shorter and revised Auflage of the German original
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0367-9
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

There is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. A figure of systematic incompetence, the new idiot is impacting global culture and politics alike, giving rise to surprising, often absurd competences. Yesterday’s “fake news” or “post-truths” can be read today as evidence of an ongoing transformation of self-politics in which the idiotic impulse is redefining our experience of the world. Despite talk of global awareness, the isolated self of the many is all the more effective. It brings about a culture of happy singletons strolling towards a black hole that has become their substitute for society.
Zoran Terzic’s wide-ranging essay takes up the figure of the idiot and follows its numerous appearances throughout intellectual history in an examination of the “art of the idiotic” that both reflects and transcends the freneticism of the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terzic, Zoran

Weitere Mitwirkende

Turnbull, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7	-	10	? ?	(Zoran Terzic)
13	-	20	Zero Expression	(Zoran Terzic)
21	-	32	Tour d’idiot—A History of the Peculiar Person	(Zoran Terzic)
33	-	50	The Two Realms of the Idiot	(Zoran Terzic)
51	-	60	The Crudest Pattern	(Zoran Terzic)
61	-	76	The Idiotic Real	(Zoran Terzic)
81	-	88	The Zeroed Society	(Zoran Terzic)
89	-	102	Political Idiocy	(Zoran Terzic)
103	-	110	The Will to Absurdity	(Zoran Terzic)
111	-	126	Dialectic of Incompetence	(Zoran Terzic)
127	-	134	The Frenetic Subject	(Zoran Terzic)
135	-	150	Wendy’s World	(Zoran Terzic)
151	-	160	Phenomenology of the Many	(Zoran Terzic)
161	-	171	Idiopractice	(Zoran Terzic)
172			Acknowledgments
173	-	191	Literature

Über Autor(innen)

Terzic, Zoran
Zoran Terzic geboren 1969 in Banja Luka, studierte Soziologie, Jazz-Piano und Kommunikationsdesign in Nu¨rnberg und
Wuppertal sowie Bildende Kunst in New York und widmete sich danach dem Schreiben. Promotion zum Dr. phil. 2006.
Er lebt seit 2001 in Berlin.

Terzic, Zoran
Zoran Terzic geboren 1969 in Banja Luka, studierte Soziologie, Jazz-Piano und Kommunikationsdesign in Nu¨rnberg und
Wuppertal sowie Bildende Kunst in New York und widmete sich danach dem Schreiben. Promotion zum Dr. phil. 2006.
Er lebt seit 2001 in Berlin.