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Fleming’s books invite contemplation as much as discovery, bridging education and personal insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"capitalism-and-nothingness-by-peter-fleming-9781350441873","title":"Capitalism and Nothingness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man. A cousin of Marcuse’s one-dimensional man, they are a figure so compressed by the unending present of capitalism that they have ceased to be genuinely present in any ethical or political sense.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Peter Fleming’s brilliant analysis of the psychological and institutional mechanisms that drive the demise of capitalist democracies. 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Beset by every malaise of modern economic institutions, from cognitive dissonance to bleak performance metrics and almost deliberate vacuity, no-dimensional man is a living mirror image of the new culture of nothingness characterising capitalism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000562008300,"sku":"9781350441873","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22331013482668.jpg?v=1763285127"},{"product_id":"dark-academia-by-peter-fleming-9780745341064","title":"Dark Academia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry'\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world—one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction, and vocational zeal—you would be hard-pressed to find a lecturer who believes that now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Fleming delves into this new metrics-obsessed, overly hierarchical world to bring out the hidden underbelly of the neoliberal university. 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