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• The Relationship Between Work and Capitalism, or What Remains of Work?

  115-120

  Laura Bajnóczki

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  156

  Szalai Erzsébet (2024): Mi a munka és mi a kapitalizmus? És mi jöhet utánuk? Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 126 oldal.

• Planetary consciousness, biospherical governance, climatic rightfulness: Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future

  13-28

  Ottó Beke

  Anna Kis

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  308

  Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future was published in 2020. The novel is the sequel to the New York 2140 science fiction dystopian novel. The conceptual continuation presents a vision of unsustainable capitalism that functions via endless expansion. The Ministry for the Future brings into focus the outcome of externalities of capitalism: climate change and its effects on societies and individuals. The study emphasis on critique of capitalism, of mass production and mass consumption, at the same time it points at the techno-optimism in The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The analysis of appearance of climate change in the novel is interdisciplinary, the study’s approach is scientific and empirical.

• Reflecions on the society of control – Footnotes to the Delezoguattarian machine

  210-228

  Szabolcs Nyiri

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  228

  The present study revolves around the concept of the Deleuzean machine. It undertakes to
  introduce the machine from Deleuze’s concept of the societies of control. Thus this paper is not
  a presentation of the critique of the Freudian and Lacanian notions of desire that the machine
  is introduced as a late capitalist abstract agent, but a genalogy of the machinic mechanism – as
  a logic of operation – is outlined from a new perspective. The emphasis of the study is not on
  psychoanalises and capitalism, and on schizoanalysis as a critique of them, but ont he operational
  logic of the societies of control: the articulation of controlling freedom. Fort he latter, concepcts
  such as territory, de- and reterritorialization, as well as the operating principles of cybernetic systems are shed light on. By examining this concept, therefore, the ways of understanding the
  social, economic and political processes of ourt time can be shed new light.

• Asbóth on the decline of the „landowning class”

  60-78

  Gergely Egedy

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  163

  The study examines the concept of the political elite of János Asbóth, the first major theorist of the Hungarian conservative thought. In line with the tradition of European conservatism, Asbóth assumed that the ‚historical’ ruling class, the landowning nobility, had to maintain its former dominant position after the Compromise of 1867, even in the context of rapidly strengthening capitalism. In his view, only this class had historical roots. The paper also points out that while in the 1870s and 1880s Asbóth saw the ‚gentry’ as the key players, by the turn of the century he turned his attention toward the landed aristocracy as the major conservative force. His historicist-defensive conservatism sharply rejected a focus on free competition, but also radical agrarian socialist aspirations. This work aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the development of Hungarian conservative thought.