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Book Review of The Energy of Slaves

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Book Review of The Energy of Slaves

   Added on 2020-04-21

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1BOOK REVIEWCrises of imagination, crises of power- capitalism, creativity and the commons by MaxHaivenThe book was first published in 2014 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF, UKand Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA.The book begins with few lines from Cohen’s, ‘The Energy of Slaves’ which throws lighton the fact that there is an ongoing war between money and our planet, people and capital andstupidity associated with greed along with the flexible originality of human race (Haiven, 2014).It can be mentioned after a giving a thorough reading of the book that some day in the future thepeople will destroy their own planet for the sake of profit. It might happen that ‘the body or soulof the people’ can be disrupted as a result of working on a ‘baseless and tyrannical task’. Thiscan be criticized on the basis of Sandberg (2000) that people had always thought of building afair and just world by utilizing the government norms along with the help of technological tools.But it was contradicted that people tend to work less and enjoy more leisurely life. This isbecause the people get de- motivated as a result of exhaustion for working less long hours. The issues in general with the planet evolve around ‘inequality, climate crisis and warand militarism’. If work can be considered as a solution in this case then people should startworking in a ‘smart and hard way’ so that a new and modified planet can be developed. At thisjuncture, the question might arise that what can be considered as good for the people. It wasgathered from the book that sometimes people have to make negotiation between their moral andhappiness and comfort and survival which becomes unbearable for survival (Borodulin et al.,2016). The writer had mentioned in his write- up that an individual has to be extremely fortunateor else greedy because the most beloved belongings of an individual’s life is determined by
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