Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present Riley Dylan
Short essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and cultureMicroverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and…
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Short essays of social theory for damaged times, encompassing intellectual history, philosophy and cultureMicroverses comprises over a hundred short essays inviting us to think about society - and social theory - in new ways. Lockdown created the conditions for what Adorno once termed 'enforced contemplation'. Dylan Riley responded with the tools of his trade, producing an extraordinary trail of notes exploring how critical sociology can speak to this troubled decade. Microverses analyses the intellectual situation, the political crisis of Trump's last months in office, and love and illness in a period when both were fraught with the public emergency of the coronavirus.Riley brings the theoretical canon to bear on problems of intellectual culture and everyday life, working through Weber and Durkheim, Parsons and Dubois, Gramsci and Lukcs, MacKinnon and