César Rendueles – författare

The great ideological cliche of our time, Cesar Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El Pais, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations.In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.

The great ideological cliche of our time, Cesar Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El Pais, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations.In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.

This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as the role the commons can play in the struggle against the global socioecological crisis that is threatening the very future of humanity.Over the past decade, various theories, concepts and political projects connected to the commons have become fundamentally important for social science and numerous social movements around the world. In sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, the law and anthropology, the study of the commons has inspired many important academic innovations. In parallel, community activists, labour unions, ecologists, feminists and cooperativists have discovered in the commons a powerful and thought-provoking toolkit with which to defend public services, guarantee access to cultural goods, organise reproductive and care work and more generally fight against commodification and ecological destruction. The first two chapters analyse the dual origin of the academic rediscovery of the commons. On one side, from the realm of political science and economics, the concept of the commons has been used to challenge the dominant paradigms founded on rational choice theory. On the other, from the fields of history, law and anthropology, analysis of the violent destruction of the commons has served to deepen our understanding of the coercive and antidemocratic processes that form the bedrock of capitalism and our current plight. The third and fourth chapters examine the role that the commons can play in emancipatory political projects aiming to deepen democracy in mass industrial societies.The Commons will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and academics with interests in social and political theory, the environment and sustainability, and political sociology.

This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as the role the commons can play in the struggle against the global socioecological crisis that is threatening the very future of humanity.Over the past decade, various theories, concepts and political projects connected to the commons have become fundamentally important for social science and numerous social movements around the world. In sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, the law and anthropology, the study of the commons has inspired many important academic innovations. In parallel, community activists, labour unions, ecologists, feminists and cooperativists have discovered in the commons a powerful and thought-provoking toolkit with which to defend public services, guarantee access to cultural goods, organise reproductive and care work and more generally fight against commodification and ecological destruction. The first two chapters analyse the dual origin of the academic rediscovery of the commons. On one side, from the realm of political science and economics, the concept of the commons has been used to challenge the dominant paradigms founded on rational choice theory. On the other, from the fields of history, law and anthropology, analysis of the violent destruction of the commons has served to deepen our understanding of the coercive and antidemocratic processes that form the bedrock of capitalism and our current plight. The third and fourth chapters examine the role that the commons can play in emancipatory political projects aiming to deepen democracy in mass industrial societies.The Commons will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and academics with interests in social and political theory, the environment and sustainability, and political sociology.

Estats, mercats i elits promouen la visió de la cultura com un indiscutible oasi de pau enmig d''un món convuls. La cultura, vista així, funciona com a forma de pacificació i recondueix les tensions cap a la possibilitat d''elecció entre productes culturals. Malgrat això, l''espai de la cultura és un espai en tensió.En aquest llibre obrim mirades i reflexions en aquest sentit, considerant la cultura com un lloc dinàmic i de disjuntives en la mateixa mesura que tants altres espais de la vida, i donant valor a aquest fet. Reconèixer aquesta tensió obre riques oportunitats de prendre posició i plantejar la cultura com un camp en el que reapropiar-nos de les nostres vides.El llibre està pensat i escrit per gent que participa al portal Nativa.cat i, en bona mesura, suposa l''expressió en paper de les seves reflexions i dinàmiques.

"En las últimas décadas, las teorías y estrategias relacionadas con los bienes comunes se han convertido en un elemento fundamental tanto de las ciencias sociales como de numerosos movimientos políticos de todo el mundo. El estudio de los comunes ha permitido comprender la sofisticación de unas instituciones que, en muchas sociedades, regulan el acceso colectivo a los recursos necesarios para la subsistencia. Paralelamente, activistas, sindicalistas, ecologistas o cooperativistas han descubierto en los bienes comunes una poderosa caja de herramientas con la que defender los servicios públicos, garantizar el acceso a la vivienda, la energía o la cultura, organizar el trabajo reproductivo y de cuidados y, más en general, luchar contra la mercantilización y la destrucción ecológica.Este sintético y accesible libro presenta una revisión rigurosa y crítica tanto de las prácticas como de los conceptos relacionados con los bienes comunes: su historia y sus potencialidades políticas, pero también sus limitaciones y ambigüedades.«Si, como escribió una vez Tomás de Aquino, ""en caso de necesidad todas las cosas son comunes"" [in casu necessitatis, omnia sunt communia], necesitamos leer este libro esta misma semana. César Rendueles –un sociólogo cuyos nuevos libros son siempre un acontecimiento para quienes nos interesamos por las cuestiones más acuciantes de nuestras vidas– no se limita a explicar por qué estamos en una condición de ""necesidad"", es decir, enmarcados en emergencias ecológicas, políticas y tecnológicas, sino también cómo reclamar nuestros ""bienes comunes"". Se trata de instituciones sociales colaborativas que regulan recursos (bienes y servicios públicos) que en un plazo relativamente breve serán cada vez menos accesibles para millones de personas que actualmente los dan por sentados. Este libro proporciona a todas aquellas valientes fuerzas sociales que abogan por estrategias democráticas, progresistas y emancipadoras una ""política de los comunes"" global que parece ser nuestra última oportunidad a medida que nos adentramos en el nuevo régimen del postcapitalismo. El propio Aquino habría respaldado el nuevo libro de Rendueles», Santiago Zabala, profesor de investigación ICREA en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra«¿Quieres conocer más sobre los comunes? ¿Qué funcionó y qué no, y qué podría funcionar en esta época de crisis? Entonces lee este libro. Como en cualquier otra, la tragedia de los comunes también demandará una catarsis política, y nada mejor que contar con César Rendueles como guía intelectual». Geert Lovink, teórico de los medios de comunicación y crítico de Internet"