To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies

by Gilles Châtelet

A startlingly prescient treatise on the cybernetic automation of society and a burlesque satire of its middle-class celebrants.

An uproarious portrait of the evils of the market and a technical manual for its innermost ideological workings, this is the story of how the perverted legacy of liberalism sought to knead Marx's "free peasant" into a statistical "average man"--pliant raw material for the sausage-machine of postmodernity.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983216967
• ISBN13: 9780983216964
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.8"