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Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism in the Era of COVID-19 (Chronicles of Liquid War Book 6) Kindle Edition

by Pepe Escobar (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
In RAGING TWENTIES, Pepe Escobar smashes a triple-wide jumbo bulldozer of erudition and insight through the painfully narrow and now Big Tech-fortified Overton window of conventional American political discourse. This volume includes 25 essays written for Asia Times, Consortium News, and Strategic Culture in the incomparable year of 2020 and adds a new introduction, afterword, and table of abbreviations. Educated people of all political persusasions will enjoy Escobar's stinging prose and his display of his wide-ranging and truly global knowledge of poetry, history, and political philosophy. American readers already skeptical of the dominant narrative will enjoy this scintillating dissection of the mammoth hypocrisy involved in the standard governmental and corporate narrative. And those with perspectives similar to the American mainstream will benefit from reading a truly Other-centered exemplar of the several billion people who find the political perspectives that are commonplace in Asia, Europe, China, Russia, and Iran more congenial than those of a US establishment that has gifted the world with seventy-five-plus years of continuous war.

Escobar's first book in the US, Globalistan (Nimble, 2007), brilliantly anticipated the future of a disintegrating international system in an era of "Liquid" (hybrid) war. These were followed by Red Zone Blues (2007); Obama does Globalistan (2009); Empire of Chaos (2014); and 2030 (2015), all by Nimble Books.

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The Raging Twenties started with a murder.

That lethality was amplified when a virus cannibalized virtually the whole planet, devouring time.

As time has been standing still—or imploded—ever since, we cannot even begin to imagine the consequences of the anthropological rupture caused by SARS-CoV-2.

A new world starts when language—either a living entity, or a virus from outer space (William Burroughs)—starts metastasizing new words.

A basket of concepts already stand out. Circuit breaker. Biosecurity. Negative feedback loops. State of exception. Necropolitics. New Brutalism. Hybrid Neofascism. And, as we shall see, New Viral Paradigm.

The proliferation of new words—and concepts—paradoxically developed in parallel with the slow fade out of The Word.Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe summed it all up: “This end of the word, this definitive triumph of the gesture and artificial organs over the word, the fact that the history of the word ends under our eyes, that for me is the historical development par excellence.”

We all now live in Google town. Suddenly, we were forced to identify the lineaments of a new regime. A new mode of production: a turbo-capitalist survival engineered as Rentier Capitalism 2.0, where Silicon Valley behemoths take the place of estates, and also the State. That is the “techno-feudal” option, as defined by economist Cedric Durand.

Squeezed and intoxicated by information performing the role of a dominatrix, we were presented with a new map of Dystopia, packaged as a “new normal”, featuring cognitive dissonance, a biosecurity paradigm, the inevitability of virtual work, social distancing as a political program, info-surveillance, and triumphant Trans-humanism.

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Pepe Escobar is a journalist, independent geopolitical analyst and author. Born in Brazil, he started in the daily newspaper business in 1982 as a music, cinema, literature and cultural critic and became a foreign correspondent in 1985, first in London and then Milan, Los Angeles and Paris. In 1994 he decided to move from the West to Asia, first to Singapore and then Bangkok and Hong Kong. He has been living between Europe and Asia ever since-with bases alternating between London/Paris and Bangkok/Hong Kong, as well as stints in Washington and New York. He has covered virtually everything important that happened across Asia in the past 25 years, including the geopolitics and geoeconomics of Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and progressively, the arc from Afghanistan/Pakistan to Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and the Persian Gulf. Switching from the "Asian miracle" to the "war on terror", after 9/11 he covered the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq (before, during and after), energy wars and, in the Obama years, the American "pivot" to Asia. For the past few years, his focus is the Chinese-driven New Silk Roads, all aspects of Eurasia integration, and the geopolitical clash between the US and the Russia/China strategic partnership. He has written columns and Op-Eds for dozens of online publications-including Al Jazeera, RT and Sputnik-and has been a frequent guest of TV and radio shows from North America to Asia. His articles/columns are regularly translated in several languages. He currently lives between Paris and Bangkok.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nimble Books LLC (February 10, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.5 MB
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  • Ruben Chandler
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2021
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    Most people have no clue what's being done in their names, with their taxpayer monies. Most people have no clue what's going on in what used to be their country or in the world. A white knuckled ride through the seedy bowels of American foreign and domestic policy.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2022
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    A good read for anyone interested in the modern world and where the elites are probably taking us..
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  • David P. Seibert
    5.0 out of 5 stars A detailed look at the world we live in.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2021
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    I have followed Pepe for a few years now and knew that going in I might have already read some of the articles he drew from for this book, but nonetheless it remains a good read. A great read for anyone not familiar with Pepe's work or with world affairs.
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  • Fritz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2021
    Pepe Escobar is brilliant, articulate, and insightful.

    This book is a collection of his short essays on our current global nightmare, and possible paths forward.

    Open your eyes and open your hearts and minds.

    This book will help.
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  • Kindle Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2021
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    Huge fan of Mr Escobar. His meltdown during the outbreak of The Viru$™ is curious, but understandable; the silence following is truly baffling. Expected far more from someone of his caliber.
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  • MR C W J FURSE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pepe Escobar sums stuff up well.
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    I liked this Book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Techno-Feudalism
    Reviewed in Brazil on August 19, 2023
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    Welcome to the new-old brave world!
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