Creating freedom : power, control and the fight for our future
Martinez, Raoul (Documentarian)2017
Books, Manuscripts
The writer, artist and filmmaker Raoul Martinez rethinks the concept of freedom in this manifesto for change, drawing together ideas in economics, philosophy, politics, neuroscience and psychology. We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith in free media, free markets, free elections and free will is dangerously misplaced. Written with empathy and imagination, this scholarly, fierce and profoundly hopeful manifesto makes a dazzling case for creating freedom on our own terms.
Main title:
Creating freedom : power, control and the fight for our future / Raoul Martinez.
Author:
Martinez, Raoul (Documentarian), author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017.
Collation:
xi, 496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781782111887 (pbk)
Dewey class:
323.44
LC class:
HM1266
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1892279