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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review the following book: KNOWLEDGE LTD by Randy Martin. Randy Martin block quote "Knowledge LTD is the summa of Randy Martin's scholarship. It brings together his vast knowledge of politics, policy, and programming; his devoted study of political economy; and his long and deep involvement in cultural studies, seen here through the scrim of dance in order to show the derivative as the social logic of our times. Knowledge LTD is a stunning empirical endeavor-what all sociologists, if not all social scientists, should now take as a starting point for studying the social." -Patricia Ticineto Clough, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology block quote end Catastrophes ranging from the travesties of financial markets and the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil well to the tsunami that struck northern Japan and the levees breaking in New Orleans are examples of the limits of knowledge. Author Randy Martin insists that the expertise erected to prevent these natural and social disasters failed in each case. In Knowledge LTD, Martin explores how both the limits of knowledge and the social constructions of culture reflect the way we organize social life in the face of disasters and their aftermath. He examines this crisis of knowledge as well as the social movements that rose up in its wake. Martin not only treats derivatives as financial contracts for pricing risk, but also shows how the derivative works in economic terms, where the very unity of the economy is undone. Knowledge LTD ultimately points to a more comprehensive reordering of the once separate spheres of economy, polity, and culture. Martin provides a new way of understanding the social significance of the all-pervasive derivative logic. This book is third volume of Martin's Marxist study of financialization.Write to me if you would like to review this important book. George Snedeker Book Review editor www.sdonline.org _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
