‘There has been thus far no better inventory made of the human consequences of individualisation, and the price which individuals are required to pay for their freedom of self-assertion in a world vacated by the past and denying hospitality to the future. Rutherford has set and furnished the stage on which all debate of the present-day human condition and its prospect will need to be conducted.’
Zygmunt Bauman
‘Jonathan Rutherford’s consideration of those essential issues – the self, identity – is always thought provoking. Even better, it carries an unusual and heartening optimism.’
Madeleine Bunting
‘The problems the thinking left face are complex. Modern consumer capitalism is busily shaping us in its image and destroying the ability to even imagine a different way of being human. Jonathan Rutherford faces up to the complexity of this challenge by using relevant and impressive high theory but does so in a way that is intensely political and immediate.’
Neal Lawson